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Edna Hibel is internationally known for her oil paintings, her lithographs and her watercolors. Her art work has been made into collectible plates, soaps, post cards and other forms. Most of all, she is known and loved for her classic depiction of the loving “mother and child.”

Now at ninety years old, Hibel has not slowed down in any recognizable way. She keeps up her regimen of painting every day from 5am to 5pm. Her Singer Island home studio is filled with over thirty canvases in progress.

What got Hibel started on the mother and child paintings? She spent a year in Mexico in 1939 on a fellowship, which would have originally let her to Europe, but World War II broke out and led her to Mexico instead.

“I was fascinated to see how the mothers and babies never separated in Mexico,” recalls Hibel. “Whatever the mothers were doing — washing, cooking, or in anything they did, they had their babies on their backs, sometimes in front.

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