Abstract Artist Lynne Mapp Drexler's Journey from Virginia to Maine

Gail Levin, Professor of Art History and American Studies at the Graduate Center and Baruch College, CUNY, joined the Muscarelle Museum of Art for a Muscarelle Explorations talk about the life and art of Lynne Mapp Drexler.

Imagine the story of an artist who escaped from an art world rife with competition and her struggle to find herself, landing on an enchanted island, where she lived happily ever after, painting, though forgotten, for the rest of her life. She went so far as to write to a friend what her dealer could tell collectors who inquired about her: "advise them I'd become a hermit — an eccentric one and that I come to NYC when provided with orchestra seats to the Met, clubhouse tickets to the racetrack, and absolutely no talk of art or the scene." After her death in 1999, her paintings were discovered, and collectors now compete to own them. This is the story of Lynne Drexler, a one-time William & Mary student, whose colorful and engaging pictures speak for themselves.