Danse Macabre Mary Jane Ansell Thornton’s body of work ranges

Thornton’s body of work ranges from medium format analog photography to photo realistic

By painting my own representations of these surfaces

Graphite and Gold Leaf on Fabriano Paper

Storybook: The Story of the Three Bears by Robert Southey |

the Smithsonian Museum of Art’s Archives of American Art

Danse Macabre Mary Jane Ansell Thornton’s body of work rangesDetails About Oil on paperboard 12 x 16 in. 2022 17. 5 x 21. 5 in. (f) Framing included J. Henry "The theme in a lot of this work comes from untold tales, vignettes of characters participating in a world separate from ours. I wanted to reflect the experience that one might have in a museum, when you stumble across a really weird piece of art from ages ago, whose purpose was to tell lessons and sing songs, but the aesthetic canons and technical methods