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The McCracken Twins
Venna McCracken: b. 28 NOV 1907, Dinuba, CA; d. 27 NOV 1987, Santa Clara CA.
Vida McCracken; b. 28 NOV 1907, Dinuba CA; d. 13 NOV 1992, Santa Clara CA.
Twin sisters Venna & Vida McCracken were NorCal South (S.F.) Bay painters. Vida's 18" x 23.5" (1971) landscape of a pale-blue cove surrounded by massive reddish rocks hangs in the small hallway connecting my bathroom & bedroom. I recently found it discarded here in the big green dumpster, while Vida's wrecked, beached fishing boat (1970) & children's tree-house (1977) hang framed in the central Social Center (Bldg. 18) with Venna's "Telegraph Hill" (1968.) Why? They died here (1987, 1992.)
For reviews of both of them:
http://www.svcn.com/archives/rosegardenresident/FOV2-00015EA2/rg-cover.shtml
http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/03.09.05/biter-0510.html