Our emotional response to this painting: Lush brush strokes, solidity of the rocks against the onslaught of crashing waves, creamy azure mist...agua against vaporous blue-gray clouds leading to an endless horizon...what the French referred to as twilight, "le bleu"...






Works by Gaffords has been exhibited at the Howard University of Art in Washington, D.C., the Long Beach Museum of Art, and the Bowers Museum of Cultural Art in Santa Ana, Ca. In addition to being a splendid artist, she was a prominent nurse, an art teacher in the L.A. County school system, and a leader in the African-American community.