Myrtice West was born in Cherokee County Alabama in 1923.
The Bible story of Revelations manifested itself into her
life and she devotes much of her time to telling through
paints the whole story of Revelations as she has seen it in
visions. She also makes memory paintings of when she picked
cotton and was involved with riverboats piled high with
bales of cotton. Her only daughter was killed by an abusive
husband and Myrtice says she puts her hurt in her paintings.
Many of her works are extremely detailed and it may take her
over six months to finish one. The University of Memphis
exhibition of her paintings, "Revelations: The Paintings of
Myrtice West in December of 1995 was the first solo
exhibition of her work. Her work is in the permanent
collection of the St. James Place Folk Art Museum
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