Janet wrote: >Can you or anyone else provide some information about that? >Was it commissioned, or did the artist simply want to do it? >What was Miss Lynn's reaction to it? The artist who did the large portrait of Betty Lynn is Greg McCormick. He has done five other commissioned pieces for the Surry Arts Council that hang in the Andy Griffith Playhouse - Andy, Tommy Jarrell (old-time music & fiddle legend), The Original Siamese Twins (Eng & Chang Bunker, who retired from show business to farm and raise their families in White Plains), Donna Fargo (the happiest girl in the whole USA), and Ralph Epperson (founded WPAQ 740AM). He is currently working on a portrait of another Mount Airy fiddle legend, Benton Flippen. Greg lives in Mount Airy with his family and works as a free lance artist. His wife teaches art. Robbie covered most of it - she certainly was thrilled. The portrait is now in one of the classrooms in the Playhouse, along with two walls covered with 8x10's of her throughout her career - publicity stills and photos taken for movies and TV. There is one photo of her standing next to Andy on a day they were shooting at 40 Acres and she said someone had airbrushed out the cigarettes from each of their hands. You don't really notice it, but can see it by the position of their hands. Jeff http://www.surryarts.org
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