Two painted trays
Edith Lueders Diehl, "Mimi" to her fifteen grandchildren, was born August 16, 1878, and was orphaned at the age of six when both her parents died of TB. She was raised by her aunt, and because her aunt wouldn't buy her a paintbrush, she painted as a child by wrapping cotton around a stick. Reproduced here are some of her painted trays. She died in 1960, at her farm home in Berks County, PA.
Two painted trays
Frank "Duke" Diehl, born in 1890, was a sometime artist and poet. As a youth he served as a field medic in France in WWI, was a victim of poison gas attacks and returned to the U.S. addicted to alcohol and morphine; his addictions hounded him his whole life until his death in 1944 at the age of 52. After returning from WWI he attended Phila. School of Industrial Design, now University of the Arts, for a year. We have just a few examples of his work, two of which are shown here.
Other Maguire Gallery artists: Dolly Diehl Maguire, Barrie Maguire, Bonnie Maguire Wren, Deborah Maguire, Brigid Maguire, Jim Meehan, Kenna Doeringer, Patrick Meehan, Terry Maguire, Cindy Maguire, Joseph Meehan