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Forester also painted prolifically, her works ranging from landscapes to religious and historical scenes. As well as on the interior walls of her home, she painted on stretched flour sacks and other homemade "canvases". In 1961, a newspaper report described
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Mrs. Forester’s inventiveness was almost as incredible as her talent. Besides using scrap iron from junkyards, discarded tin cans and other waste material as braces for her statues, she painted the figures with liquids of many flowers and brightly colored
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