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Nancy Francis

Gwenn Seemel
Nancy Francis (KGW)
2004
acrylic on canvas
36 x 24 inches

Of the fourteen television news personalities who sat for me for this series, just two were women, Nancy Francis and Shauna Parsons.  This under-representation of my sex was not purposeful.  Quite the opposite: I invited all the women in the business (there are fewer women than men).  I have found this reticence across the board, from death workers to public officials.  It is always more difficult to find female models and this is part of the reason why I dedicated a whole series to women in 2007.