Ulfert Wilke was born in Bavaria, Germany in 1907." He immigrated to the United States in 1938 and died in Solon, IA in 1987. Wilke received his MA from the University of Iowa and later became the University of Iowa Museum of Art's first...
Nancy Purington is an artist who pursues work about our perception of the places we live. Born in Davenport and growing up in the rural river township of Princeton, her life's work began by observing and experiencing the character of the river and...
Paula Brandel grew up in rural Minnesota, and her work frequently deals with the geography that was her formative visual milieu. Her abstract paintings reference structures that humans impose on the landscape, but she softens the rational geometry...
Of her work, Patterson writes, My work is primarily nonrepresentational. I choose this area because this is what I love to see. It is my passion in art. I am most excited by seeing abstract or nonobjective art. I love the abstract expressionists,...
Robert Spellman resides in Des Moines, Iowa and exhibits his work at Robert Spellman Gallery. He is an abstract expressionist whose main point of focus is abstract and non-objective subject matter. He uses rich, spontaneous brush strokes to expose...
Thomas Jewell-Vitale, Professor of Art at Loras College in Dubuque, returned to his Alma Mater in 1976 almost a decade after leaving: first to pursue religious studies at Gregorian University in Rome, then to study figure drawing at Academie der...
William Francis Hamilton II was born in Des Moines, Iowa. He is the son of nationally-known artists Gene and Carlie Hamilton. In addition to learning from his parents, Bill attended the Academy of Art in San Francisco and also mentored under...