Film Screening: Daughter of Rubens

In this short documentary film, Daughter of Rubens, filmmaker Sarah Hachey and executive producer Gloria Monaghan hope to shed light on the brilliant, talented painter Nancy Ellen Craig. Initially a portrait painter, Craig painted aristocrats and notable figures.

She was born in 1927 in Bronxville, NY and died in 2015 in Truro, MA. Critics have compared her work to Thomas Eakins and John Singer Sargent. Largely self-taught, she led an unconventional life centered wholly around her art, painting large scale surreal, mythic oil paintings.

Although Craig won numerous awards in Europe and the United States, she has been marginalized and dismissed by her more famous male counterparts. This film is an attempt to look at her unconventional life as a painter, woman, mother, and wife.