KINSEY, Alberta, (American, 1875-1968): ''On the road to Fiesole'', O/C/B, 12 3/4'' x 10 1/2'', SLL, label verso. Condition - Sporadic inpaint throughout, visible by black light. This biography from the Archives of AskART: A painter and illustrator, Alberta Kinsey was an art instructor at the University of Ohio in Lebanon. She studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and was a member of the Cincinnati Women's Art Club. She then moved to New Orleans, where she worked with Ellsworth Woodward and lived in the French Quarter for more than thirty years. It is said that she inspired the development of an art colony there. She is also known for her association with Clementine Hunter, Louisiana's famous folk artist. On one occasion, Kinsey left behind her paints and brushes, which Hunter used to paint her first picture of a bouquet of zinnias. Kinsey was a trained, sophisticated artist, but she often painted directly-stated, semi-primitive paintings of patios, courtyards and historic buildings, perhaps under the i