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BiographyShe was born Tella Denehue, on a small farm in the hills of Vinton County, Ohio, near the village of Londonderry, in neighboring Ross County, Ohio.[3][4] Her father's family had immigrated to the United States from County Cork, Ireland; her mother's family was from Pennsylvania.[3] During her childhood she moved with her family to Indiana, where they settled on a small farm near Independence.[4][3] In 1920 she married Noland Kitchen (1895-1963),[1][5] and the couple moved to the village of Adelphi, Ohio, where they raised four children.[1] Noland Kitchen served as mayor of Adelphi; the Kitchens also operated a gas station, sold used cars, and farmed.[4] After her husband's death in 1963, Tella Kitchen succeeded him as mayor of Adelphi.[6] At some point during this period of her life, her son Denny gave her a paint set as a gift, and she began painting when she was around 67 years old,[7] drawing on her memories of her childhood, and her experiences of rural and town life, including contemporary events.[6] Through the efforts of Denny Kitchen, the artist's son, her work came to the attention of the folk art historian Robert Bishop (1938-1991), then a curator at the Henry Ford Museum, in Dearborn, Michigan, and later the director of the Museum of American Folk Art (since 2001 known as the American Folk Art Museum), in New York City; Bishop included Kitchen in his book Folk Painters of America (1979).[4] Selected paintings
References1. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 "Tella Kitchen: Southern Ohio's 'Grandma' Moses" (September 2013). Pike County News Watchman (Ohio). www.newswatchman.org. Retrieved 2016-07-26. {{Ohio Women's Hall of Fame}}{{authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Kitchen, Tella}}2. ^1 Sellen, Betty-Carol (2016). "[https://books.google.com/books?id=5QKQCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT191 Kitchen, Tella (1902-1988)]". Self-Taught, Outsider and Folk Art: A Guide to American Artists, Locations and Resources. 3rd edition. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Co. {{ISBN|9780786475858}}. p. 183. 3. ^1 2 Bishop, Robert (1979). Folk Painters of America. New York: Greenwich House. Reprint. {{ISBN|9780517413647}}. p. 214. 4. ^1 2 3 Rivers, Cheryl (2004). "Kitchen, Telia (1902-1988)". The Encyclopedia of American Folk Art. Eds. Gerard C. Wertkin and Lee Kogan. London: Routledge. {{ISBN|9780415929868}}. Retrieved via Credo Reference database, 2016-07-26. Taylor & Francis edition, 2005, [https://books.google.com/books?id=iXecfgS0CY8C&pg=PT523 available in preview] via Google Books. 5. ^"[https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/79261011 Tella Denehue Kitchen]". Find-A-Grave memorial number 79261011. www.findagrave.com. Retrieved 2016-07-26. 6. ^1 2 Cardinal, Roger. "Painting, Memory" (2004). The Encyclopedia of American Folk Art. Eds. Gerard C. Wertkin and Lee Kogan. London: Routledge. {{ISBN|9780415929868}}. Retrieved via Credo Reference database, 2016-07-26. 7. ^"Tella Kitchen." Ohio Women's Hall of Fame. Ohio Department of Job and Family Services. Retrieved 2016-07-26. 12 : 1902 births|1988 deaths|20th-century American painters|20th-century American women artists|American women painters|Naïve painters|People from Ross County, Ohio|Mayors of places in Ohio|Women mayors of places in Ohio|American people of Irish descent|People from Warren County, Indiana|Painters from Indiana |
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