One of 18 scrapbooks on Wood's career, containing letters, postcards, photographs, clippings, and miscellany; compiled by Nan Wood Graham, sister of Grant Wood.
One of 18 scrapbooks on Wood's career, containing letters, postcards, photographs, clippings, and miscellany; compiled by Nan Wood Graham, sister of Grant Wood.
An extensive genealogy "Miller Family History" compiled in 1950 by Albert A. Miller, son of Albert and Ellen Mowrer Miller, which traces the family back to 1761.
On May 15, 1950, Evelyn Birkby debuted her radio program, "Up a country lane," (later re-named "Down a country lane") on radio station KMA in Shenandoah, Iowa. Adapted from her weekly local newspaper column with the same title, the program featured...
One of 18 scrapbooks on Wood's career, containing letters, postcards, photographs, clippings, and miscellany; compiled by Nan Wood Graham, sister of Grant Wood.
Single story wooden depot with junk piled in front and an old car parked next to it. "[Bur]lington ex-depot now a junk yard. Old depot...Cincinnati, Iowa was abandoned between [S]edan, Iowa and Unionville, MO. [T]he Railway Guide of 1950 lists...
"This exhibition has been designed to dramatize the contrast between American art in the 1930's and 1950's. The painters who represent the decade of the thirties are the majority of those who were at that time considered the leading progressive...
S. Bailey Jacobson is an Intermedia B.F.A. candidate at the University of Iowa." In addition to studying video, installation, and performance art, she is an Art Education and English student. Bailey will spend the semester working as an Artist in...
Born in Rock Island, Illinois in 1950, Thomas Jackson holds a B.A. from Western Illinois University in Macomb, Illinois and an M.F.A. from the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. He received these degrees in 1972 and 1974 respectively. After...
After high school in Keokuk and Army service, Bill Wolf enrolled at the University of Iowa, seeking a degree in journalism; he was WSUI's sports director. Following his 1950 graduation and more military duty, he spent 43 years in the housewares...
Frans(z) Rudolph Wildenhain was born in Leipzig, Germany June 6, 1905. He first apprenticed as a draftsman and lithographer, then studied at the Bauhaus in Weimar where his instructors included Paul Klee, Moholy-Nagy, Gerhard Marcks and Max Krehan....
Orville Magnus Running was born September 19, 1910 in Veblen, South Dakota to the Rev. Alfred Running and Sophia Olsen Running. His father was a Lutheran pastor and his mother a teacher and musician. After living in Montana and Idaho, the family...
Born in 1950 in Rock Island, Illinois, Thomas Jackson received his B.A. from Western Illinois University in 1972 and his M.F.A. from the University of Notre Dame in 1974. Jackson taught college-level art and worked in marketing before becoming a...
Born in Rock Island, Illinois in 1950, Thomas Jackson holds a B.A. from Western Illinois University in Macomb, Illinois and an M.F.A. from the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. He received these degrees in 1972 and 1974 respectively. After...
Born in Rock Island, Illinois in 1950, Thomas Jackson holds a B.A. from Western Illinois University in Macomb, Illinois and an M.F.A. from the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. He received these degrees in 1972 and 1974 respectively. After...