Henrietta Mantooth (1924-2025) was an American painter, designer, and performer. She spent 20 years in Latin America incorporating Latin themes into her paintings. She worked in theater for many years as designer and performer in Off-Broadway and Broadway theaters and universities, often with dancers, poets, actors, and musicians. She later collaborated on a small theater piece on the life and prophecies of Nostradamus and one based on the life of her mother.
My painting can be described as “witnessing.” The work is often based on images and stories in the news, people who look out at us every day from the printed page and television screen but who are usually nameless — refugees, rebels, farmers, men and women who tend and defend their land, homes, children, animals and ideas. My intention is that they speak out from the paintings: “HERE WE ARE.”
