Sybil Gibson

This eccentric artist who would disappear for months at a time was born Sybil Aaron on February 18, l908 in Dora, Alabama. Although her childhood was filled with prosperity, she spent most of her adult life in abject poverty. Her father was a successful coal mine operator with a family farm. Gibson was college educated and married Hugh Gibson. An unsuccessful experience in a college art class "killed any interest she had in creating art," she later stated. She taught elementary school and gave birth to a daughter. In l963 on Thanksgiving Day at the age of 55, she became fascinated with making her own wrapping paper from brown grocery bags and tempera paint. She was totally seized with a compulsion to paint which lasted for three decades...(continue reading)

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