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According to local folklore and some members of the
Providence Art Club, there is a legend that O'Leary's ghost haunts the Art Club and the Fleur-de-lys Studios on account of her tragic death. Today, O'Leary's story and the Fleur-de-Lys studio feature on a number of "ghost tours" in Providence.
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Providence and continued to develop her artwork. In Providence, she remained close to her mentor Burleigh, sitting for portraits and traveling widely with him and his family. In Providence, O'Leary maintained a studio at the
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described her work: "Miss O'Leary shows about forty water colors of decorative quality in which quaint and dilapidated old buildings and tumble down rookeries are the motive and several studies of bridges." Another critic of her work in
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Haunted Providence: Strange Tales from the Smallest State
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