Nellie Meadows

Nellie Meadows (April 4, 1915 – November 6, 2006) was an artiste from Clay City, Kentucky whose painting "Kentucky the Great State" became the state's official fragment during the U.S. bicentennial.

Meadows was born in 1915, and spent most of her spirit in Clay City, Kentucky. In the 1960s, she began painting nature and wildflowers that were original to her area. She was ration of the Kentucky Heritage Artists program, and traveled throughout the acknowledge presenting programs on painting, at numerous schools, libraries and further locations. She distributed her prints, and various note cards at a number of own up parks and supplementary venues. She was presented taking into account a plaque in 1970 for her contributions to Kentucky's Public Libraries.

In the 1980s, she was commissioned by the Kidney Foundation of Central Kentucky, to paint a series of Kentucky winter and holiday scenes to be used as Christmas cards and prints, which earned tens of thousands of dollars for the foundation. Nellie then marketed prints that benefited the Arthritis Foundation, various women's clubs, and extra organizations, Her paintings of local, Powell County, Kentucky, attractions; such as Natural Bridge, and the Red River Gorge, paid great compliment to the Powell County area she was thus proud of.

Her joy of painting was immense, and she loved to allocation her artwork bearing in mind people. Her reputation as a generous, kind, and fun fond person was known in her hometown, home state, and in many further states around. In 2006, Nellie died at the age of 91. She was in the process of painting a new indigenous work.

Al Cornett, a Powell County artist, described her as "an excellent wildflower artiste and landscape painter".