Maud Sumner; South African 1902-1985; Pathway With Trees And Buildings
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Notes : Sister Bernwarda (Franziska Hefele) was a Dominican nun who came to South Africa from the St Immaculata Convent in Schlehdorf, Germany, in the early 1950s. She was an artist and taught art at St Vincent School for the Deaf in Melrose, Johannesburg, in the 1950s and 1960s. Maud Sumner was a committed catholic all her life and, from 1950, also lived in the suburb of Melrose, in a house named Little Ollersett that she and her sister Dorothy built after their mother died and the family home Ollersett, in Booysens, Johannesburg, was donated to the Salesian Order of the catholic church (officially the Society of St Francis de Sales). The stables and outbuildings of the old family home that Maud had used as studio space now has a chapel and offices for the Catholic Institute of Education and it houses the Salesians of Don Bosco. The main house is now a residence for the Salesian Sisters.
Condition_report : Minor cockling, otherwise good. Under glass. Examined out of the frame; not laid down, stuck between mount and backing board.
