Olive Nuhfer
Olive Harriett Nuhfer | |
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| Born | Olive Harriett Austin August 16, 1901 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Died | October 8, 1996 (aged 95) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Known for | muralist |
Olive Nuhfer (1901-1996) was an American painter. She is best known for her New Deal era mural in the Westerville, Ohio Post Office.
Biography
[edit]Nuhfer née Austin was born on August 16, 1901, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.[1] In 1926 she married Leo R. Nuhfer.[2] She attended the University of Oklahoma and the Carnegie Institute of Technology.[1] In 1937 she painted the mural The Daily Mail for the Westerville, Ohio Post Office. The mural was funded by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts (TSFA).[3] Around 1959 she painted a portrait of Dwight D. Eisenhower, which is now in the collection of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Library-Museum.[4] Her 1937 portrait Electric Welder is in the Steidle Collection of American Industrial Art at Penn State College of Earth and Mineral Sciences.[1]
In 1961, Nuhfer founded the Penn Arts Association in Penn Hills, Pennsylvania.[5]
She died on October 8, 1996, in Pittsburgh.[1][6]
In 2016, her painting Pittsburgh Landscape was included in the exhibition The Gift of Art: 100 Years of Art from the Pittsburgh Public Schools' Collection at the Heinz History Center.[7]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d "Electric Welder - Olive Harriette Nuhfer - 1937". Steidle Collection of American Industrial Art. Earth and Mineral Sciences Museum & Art Gallery. Archived from the original on June 4, 2024. Retrieved March 11, 2022.
- ^ "Record Image". West Virginia Vital Research Records. Retrieved March 11, 2022.
- ^ "Post Office Mural - Westerville OH". The Living New Deal. Archived from the original on September 11, 2024. Retrieved March 11, 2022.
- ^ "Dwight D. Eisenhower by Olive Harriett Nuhfer [1959]". National Portrait Gallery. Smithsonian Institution. Archived from the original on June 4, 2024. Retrieved March 11, 2022.
- ^ Smith, Kevin M. (January 14, 1988). "Grants encourage arts group in Penn Hills". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Archived from the original on September 11, 2024. Retrieved March 11, 2022 – via Google News Archive.
- ^ "Latest Deaths". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. October 12, 1996. pp. C-3. ProQuest 391748215. Retrieved March 11, 2022.
- ^ Thomas, M. (November 5, 2016). "Pittsburgh Public Schools display 'The Gift of Art' at Heinz History Center". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Archived from the original on August 12, 2020. Retrieved March 11, 2022.