This is an 11 x 13 original yarn painting matted and in a 18 x 20 frame.
 
Annie Lucille Greene, Georgia native, painter, craftswoman, and retired educator, is best known for her yarn paintings. Her style is distinguished by using colorful knitting yarns outlined in black crochet thread. Her paintings frequently reflect culturally and socially relevant images of her life as an African American in the rural South. Her two museum exhibits are the yarn paintings upon which her two auto-biographical books are based. 

Annie Greene is a graduate of Albany State College and has her Masters of Arts degree in Art Education from New York University. Annie Green was first attracted to yarn painting because it kept the seventh graders in the class, she was teaching occupied . After sharing her technique with her students she ventured out to create works of her own.

Annie's commitment to family , church and community often finds its way into her artwork which frequently reflects her life as a black woman in the rural South.

At 92 years old Annie is still creating her yarn works of art and exhibiting them throughout the Southeast.