Francis Lee Rogers, a 63-year-old artist who painted the birds and landscapes of Central Park and was known as the "Grandma Moses of Central Park," died on Sunday, September 27. Law enforcement sources told the New York Post that Rogers, who was unhoused, had been found beaten to death under the gazebo she called home, though the NYPD could not confirm the individual's identity to Hyperallergic due to the ongoing investigation. Rogers had become a fixture in the park as an avid birdwatcher and painter of its locations, particularly the Ramble, the heavily wooded section she frequented most. "We used to call her the Grandma Moses of Central Park," Robert "Birding Bob" DeCandido told Hyperallergic, comparing her to the renowned folk landscape painter. "But she probably wouldn't want all this sympathy. She didn't call attention to herself." Her path to the park was difficult. Known earlier in life as Elise Bainbridge Hill, she was the subject of Karen Gehres's 2007 documentary Begging Naked, in which she recounted running away from home as a teenager, surviving as a sex worker, persevering through heroin addiction, and finding space for her art in between. Her death has resonated with the birding and art communities that watched her work for years. A painter of the park's fauna and flora who lived within it, Rogers embodied a vanishing kind of New York bohemian life — one lived and made outdoors, in public, largely unnoticed until it was gone. Tributes from birders and artists alike have continued to surface online since the news broke.