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Fourteenth annual Fine Arts Festival: contemporary art in Iowa, State University of Iowa, June 15 - August 1, 1952
"The exhibition is divided into two parts: (1) 'Art Created in Iowa' and (2) 'Art Collected in Iowa.' For the purposes of this exhibition, contemporary creative activity in Iowa is represented by works of art in several media by the faculty of the...
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Large Green Clay Vase
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....
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Paintings, drawings, sculpture, prints from twenty-three Iowa collections: a catalogue of the exhibition, The University of Iowa, May 9-Aug. 6, 1961
Festival included: an address by Gibson A. Danes; "From galleries, museums and private homes ... this exhibition is composed of irreplaceable art objects of great aesthetic quality and intrinsic value. It affords indisputable evidence of great...
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Exhibition of contemporary paintings: twentieth annual Festival of Fine Arts, School of Fine Arts, Summer Session, State University of Iowa, June 18 - August 13, 1958
Festival included: an opera, Madama Butterfly, by Giacomo Puccini; "The paintings presented in this catalogue were selected ... by Mrs. Edith Halpert, Director of the Downtown Gallery ... New York City ... forty-three paintings by twenty-five ......
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First summer exhibition of contemporary art, The State University of Iowa, 1945
"The Fine Arts Festival at the University of Iowa was established in the Summer Session of 1939. Concerts, plays, art exhibitions, lectures , and radio programs are presented each year. This summer, for the first time, a major exhibition of...
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Fine Arts Festival, University of Iowa, July 14-18, 1940
Festival included: luncheon speakers featuring Jean Charlot, Modeste Alloo, Thomas Wood Stevens; exhibition of American paintings and etchings; graduate student art exhibitions; plays and musical performances.
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Third summer exhibition of contemporary art, University of Iowa, June 15-July 30, 1947
"The third annual exhibition of contemporary art (The Iowa Summer Show) is presented by the School of Fine Arts at the State University of Iowa as one of the major events of the Ninth Annual Fine Arts Festival. The exhibition this year presents...
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Second summer exhibition of contemporary art, University of Iowa, June 16-July 31, 1946
"The summer exhibition of contemporary art at the State University of Iowa [is] a major feature of the Annual Fine Arts Festival. This year there are 160 paintings, drawings and prints, drawn from private collections, artists' studios, and...
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The president and the portrait: a featured presentation of the Twenty-Sixth Annual Fine Arts Festival, Iowa Memorial Union, State University of Iowa, June 10-Aug. 5., 1964, including the festival program.
Festival included: two art exhibitions (1) Drawing and the figure, 1400-1964 and (2) The President and the portrait: Presidents of the State University of Iowa from 1862-1964; Museum of Natural History exhibitions; lectures by Dr. Harlow Shapley,...
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Recent work by former Iowa art students: 1957 summer exhibition
"The Art Exhibition of the Nineteenth Annual Festival of Fine Arts at the State University of Iowa introduces paintings, prints, sculpture, crafts and design representing recent work of former students who hold one or more degrees from the State...
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Fourth summer exhibition of contemporary art, University of Iowa, June - July, 1948
"The fourth summer exhibition of contemporary art is presented as a major feature of the Tenth Annual Fine Arts Festival at the State University of Iowa. Dr. Lester D. Longman, Head of the Department of Art, selected the paintings"--P. 3.
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Grant Wood scrapbook 12: Grant Wood, 1963-1973
One of 18 scrapbooks on Wood's career, containing letters, postcards, photographs, clippings, and miscellany; compiled by Nan Wood Graham, sister of Grant Wood.
Figge Art Museum Grant Wood Digital Collection

Fine Arts Festival exhibitions, 1969
"1969 Fine Arts Festival exhibitions inaugurating the opening of the Museum of Art on May 5, 1969, and continuing until July 15, 1969"--P. 1; "This catalogue acquaints the viewer with five exhibitions assembled for the opening of the Museum: 1. A...
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The Strength of the Hills is His Also
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...
The Daily Palette Digital Collection

African sculpture: 18th annual Fine Arts Festival, School of Fine Arts, State University of Iowa, June 12 - July 31, 1956
"The Eighteenth Annual Festival of Fine Arts at the State University of Iowa is proud to present the first major exhibition in this area of African sculpture in which a survey of the principle tribal styles is attempted. The exhibition has been...
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Fine Arts Festival, University of Iowa, July 16-23, 1939
Festival included: panel featuring Grant Wood, Paul Green, Lawrence Tibbett, Frank Lloyd Wright; exhibition of paintings by Grant Wood and Marvin Cone; graduate student art exhibition; plays and musical performances.
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Then and now, American painting in the 1930s and 1950s: sixteenth annual Fine Arts Festival, State University of Iowa, School of Fine Arts, June 13 - July 31, 1954
"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...
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Fine Arts Festival, University of Iowa, July 13-17, 1941
Festival included: panel discussions featuring Lester D. Longman, Thomas Wood Stevens, Arnold Small, Philip Greeley Clapp, Fletcher Martin, W. D. Coder, E. C. Mabie, Thompson Stone, Horst Janson; exhibition of contemporary art of seventy-nine...
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