A life well lived......
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Sylvia was born in Ireland and came to America with her mother at the age of 18. She met Slim Winslow, married him, and gave birth to a daughter named Susan Sylvia {Hittson} in 1939.
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The couple traveled around the desert areas in their pickup truck that they tongue in cheek named "Creampuff". They lived on their "Double S Ranch" that they designed and constructed themselves in the Bodfish, California mountains. Their home was made from adobe blocks and Slim worked alongside the crew that built the adobe walls and erected the massive roof beams and then he and Sylvia took over completing the construction, plumbing, and furnishing. Electricity came later. Sylvia designed their furniture, doors, latches, and home accessories by repurposing everyday objects and then Slim built them, but left the painting to Sylvia.
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The couple built a gallery and art studio out of concrete blocks where Sylvia exhibited her own work and planned shows for other artists in her gallery as well as added living quarters for visiting artists. She also taught art classes, lectured, and was the Maturango Museum's first curator.
Slim was a pilot and he and Sylvia explored the desert areas in their plane they named Buttercup.
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After the passing of her first husband Slim Winslow in 1975 she ceased painting and in 1990 Sylvia married Phillip J. Kirby.
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There is a great article about Sylvia and her cowboy husband Slim Winslow in "The Desert Magazine", March. 1948 issue.
Parents were Edward Canning and Gloria Russell.
Last residence was 93528 Johannesburg, Kern County, California.
The painting is one of Sylvia's paintings that hung in the American Hotel above the bar in Cerro Gordo, CA. The hotel burned to the ground in 2020 and the painting was lost. The woman is Sylvia's daughter. She was originally painted nude and then clothes added later.
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Sylvia was born in Ireland and came to America with her mother at the age of 18. She met Slim Winslow, married him, and gave birth to a daughter named Susan Sylvia {Hittson} in 1939.
.
The couple traveled around the desert areas in their pickup truck that they tongue in cheek named "Creampuff". They lived on their "Double S Ranch" that they designed and constructed themselves in the Bodfish, California mountains. Their home was made from adobe blocks and Slim worked alongside the crew that built the adobe walls and erected the massive roof beams and then he and Sylvia took over completing the construction, plumbing, and furnishing. Electricity came later. Sylvia designed their furniture, doors, latches, and home accessories by repurposing everyday objects and then Slim built them, but left the painting to Sylvia.
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The couple built a gallery and art studio out of concrete blocks where Sylvia exhibited her own work and planned shows for other artists in her gallery as well as added living quarters for visiting artists. She also taught art classes, lectured, and was the Maturango Museum's first curator.
Slim was a pilot and he and Sylvia explored the desert areas in their plane they named Buttercup.
.
After the passing of her first husband Slim Winslow in 1975 she ceased painting and in 1990 Sylvia married Phillip J. Kirby.
.
There is a great article about Sylvia and her cowboy husband Slim Winslow in "The Desert Magazine", March. 1948 issue.
Parents were Edward Canning and Gloria Russell.
Last residence was 93528 Johannesburg, Kern County, California.
The painting is one of Sylvia's paintings that hung in the American Hotel above the bar in Cerro Gordo, CA. The hotel burned to the ground in 2020 and the painting was lost. The woman is Sylvia's daughter. She was originally painted nude and then clothes added later.
A life well lived......
.
Sylvia was born in Ireland and came to America with her mother at the age of 18. She met Slim Winslow, married him, and gave birth to a daughter named Susan Sylvia {Hittson} in 1939.
.
The couple traveled around the desert areas in their pickup truck that they tongue in cheek named "Creampuff". They lived on their "Double S Ranch" that they designed and constructed themselves in the Bodfish, California mountains. Their home was made from adobe blocks and Slim worked alongside the crew that built the adobe walls and erected the massive roof beams and then he and Sylvia took over completing the construction, plumbing, and furnishing. Electricity came later. Sylvia designed their furniture, doors, latches, and home accessories by repurposing everyday objects and then Slim built them, but left the painting to Sylvia.
.
The couple built a gallery and art studio out of concrete blocks where Sylvia exhibited her own work and planned shows for other artists in her gallery as well as added living quarters for visiting artists. She also taught art classes, lectured, and was the Maturango Museum's first curator.
Slim was a pilot and he and Sylvia explored the desert areas in their plane they named Buttercup.
.
After the passing of her first husband Slim Winslow in 1975 she ceased painting and in 1990 Sylvia married Phillip J. Kirby.
.
There is a great article about Sylvia and her cowboy husband Slim Winslow in "The Desert Magazine", March. 1948 issue.
Parents were Edward Canning and Gloria Russell.
Last residence was 93528 Johannesburg, Kern County, California.
The painting is one of Sylvia's paintings that hung in the American Hotel above the bar in Cerro Gordo, CA. The hotel burned to the ground in 2020 and the painting was lost. The woman is Sylvia's daughter. She was originally painted nude and then clothes added later.
.
Sylvia was born in Ireland and came to America with her mother at the age of 18. She met Slim Winslow, married him, and gave birth to a daughter named Susan Sylvia {Hittson} in 1939.
.
The couple traveled around the desert areas in their pickup truck that they tongue in cheek named "Creampuff". They lived on their "Double S Ranch" that they designed and constructed themselves in the Bodfish, California mountains. Their home was made from adobe blocks and Slim worked alongside the crew that built the adobe walls and erected the massive roof beams and then he and Sylvia took over completing the construction, plumbing, and furnishing. Electricity came later. Sylvia designed their furniture, doors, latches, and home accessories by repurposing everyday objects and then Slim built them, but left the painting to Sylvia.
.
The couple built a gallery and art studio out of concrete blocks where Sylvia exhibited her own work and planned shows for other artists in her gallery as well as added living quarters for visiting artists. She also taught art classes, lectured, and was the Maturango Museum's first curator.
Slim was a pilot and he and Sylvia explored the desert areas in their plane they named Buttercup.
.
After the passing of her first husband Slim Winslow in 1975 she ceased painting and in 1990 Sylvia married Phillip J. Kirby.
.
There is a great article about Sylvia and her cowboy husband Slim Winslow in "The Desert Magazine", March. 1948 issue.
Parents were Edward Canning and Gloria Russell.
Last residence was 93528 Johannesburg, Kern County, California.
The painting is one of Sylvia's paintings that hung in the American Hotel above the bar in Cerro Gordo, CA. The hotel burned to the ground in 2020 and the painting was lost. The woman is Sylvia's daughter. She was originally painted nude and then clothes added later.
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