Old Western Gateway Bridge Schenectady to Scotia Acrylic Print

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The Western Gateway Bridge out of Schenectady was truly a major gate way to the west through the 1800s. It borders the old section known as the Stockade where indeed George Washington slept, George Westinghouse grew up, and near by Edison began the forerunner of General Electric. The city was once known as the city that "lights and hauls the world" because of its history with electricity and locomotives. Painted on linen canvas.

Betty Pieper received her first set of oils at the age of ten and has been painting ever since. Her work has been selected by prominent jurors for prestigious regional and national exhibitions and is owned by people throughout the country. Before the age of five, Betty had lived on Dean Street in Brooklyn, on Forsythe Street in Manhattan, on an estate in Westchester county, and with her grandparents in rural New York. She watched her father build their house nearby only to sell it and announce a move to California. In San Bernardino she lived in a trailer park and later in a rural farmhouse without running water, then in an historic mansion with an Indian cellar. How did this itinerant childhood influence her art? "I learned...