Marla Olmstead

Biography

Marla Olmstead (born 2000 in Binghamton, New York) is a painter of abstract art who by the age of four had caught international media attention for her work. Abstract artworks painted by her have been as large as five feet (1.52 m) square and have sold for tens of thousands of US dollars. A 2005 60 Minutes II story on Olmstead that first brought her publicity led to speculation that the works supposedly created by Marla were in fact created in collaboration with her father, which was further exa…