Last Chance: Marie Ulmer's "Tell All" exhibit closes Oct. 14

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Last Chance: Marie Ulmer's "Tell All" exhibit closes Oct. 14

POSTED: Tuesday, October 13, 2009, 5:38 PM

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Marie Ulmer

Have you seen our native daughter Marie Ulmer's "Tell All" exhibit at Gallery 817 (333 S. Broad St., 215-717-6495), which closes tomorrow? It's a retrospective of one of Philly's loveliest artists, who is now 92 years old and kickin'. Born in Fishtown, Ulmer has been labeled all sorts of things ' a "vegetable," a "depressive" ' but went on to attend the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Design (now known as UArts), and graduate with an illustration degree.

She later become an illustrator for the Free Library for 30 years, and worked privately throughout that time. The retrospective features mostly illustrations and paintings from her younger years, which examine womanhood and girlhood, frightening dreams, fairy tales and expectations of femininity.

Click the jump to see one of Ulmer's stranger, creepier works.

Marie Ulmer

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