PURYEAR: I think it probably will. Who can tell the future? But I remember a show that must have been in the late ’50s or early ’60s, about realism, at the Museum of Modern Art. And there was an awful ...

Her sisters-in-art – glamorous, dark-haired women emerging from forest pools, lounging in trees or just staring coolly from the canvas – can be found in op shops and fashion stores alike.