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Auction Records 0. For Sale 0. Free Alerts. Upcoming 0. Wanted 0. Related Artists 0. Pricing my art. Charts 0. Dealers 0. Signatures 0. Auction Records Lots 0. And the pressure I put upon Marla, I regret that and I feel a lot to blame. While he takes the blame for the pressure, Olmstead vehemently denies painting the pictures on his daughter's behalf. Bar-Lev documented the remarkable rise of the little girl whose paintings sold for tens of thousands of dollars.
He was also there months later, recording the Olmsteads' reaction to a "60 Minutes" report questioning whether Marla had actually painted the artwork alone. Some suspected that Marla's father, Mark, who is also an artist, was helping her or completing the paintings.
When Snow asked Olmstead if he ever helped his daughter paint the pictures, he responded, "I think we should define help. I do have to be involved, and I have, because she is -- was -- a one-year-old, two-year-old, three-year-old. And I help her by priming the canvas, by lifting her up over the canvas when she was younger so she could reach certain points, doing the edges, helping her with the paints themselves, as far as getting them in ketchup bottles. After a couple of interested buyers inquired about the price of the painting, Marla's parents were shocked.
The offer was accepted, thus beginning Marla's lucrative art career. Soon after her first painting sold, Marla's art was was showcased at a Binghamton, New York, art gallery run by Anthony Brunelli, a local painter. Her reputation as a "world famous abstract expressionist" was soon cemented in the public eye. In the following months, Marla and her family were reportedly contacted by David Letterman, Ellen DeGeneres, Oprah, and numerous television news and entertainment outlets.
The sudden blast of widespread media exposure made the 4-year-old's abstract paintings skyrocket in market value. Collectors who owned works from prestigious adult artists such as Monet and Renoir swarmed around the signature "Marlas. As news of Marla's artistic vision entered the mainstream media, it caught the attention of child psychologist Ellen Winner. Winner focuses on cognition in gifted and talented children, and saw a great opportunity in analyzing Marla's work.
Winner and the producers of 60 Minutes II wanted to see Marla's work in action, but the Olmstead family had concerns about Marla's performance anxiety in front of strangers. The family and Winner ultimately agreed to insert a hidden camera in Marla's painting room, and Winner was surprised by the results. While Marla did work on a painting until completion, the psychologist was not convinced the final piece matched the style of those being sold for thousands of dollars.
She said:. This is eye-opening to me to see her painting, because she isn't doing anything that a normal kid wouldn't do.
She's just kind of slowly pushing the paint around. I expected to see a child feverishly and intensively working at her canvas and filling up space. In addition to the concerns about Marla's technique, Winner was also skeptical of Mark Olmstead's involvement in the process.
On the tape, he can be heard coaching Marla through the painting process, telling her which colors to use and where.
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