Olive Nuhfer
American artist
Olive Harriett Nuhfer | |
|---|---|
| Born | Olive Harriett Austin (1901-08-16)August 16, 1901 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Died | October 8, 1996(1996-10-08) (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
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
- ^ 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.
