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Olive Nuhfer

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Olive Harriett Nuhfer
Born
Olive Harriett Austin

(1901-08-16)August 16, 1901
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
DiedOctober 8, 1996(1996-10-08) (aged 95)
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Known formuralist

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

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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

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  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ "Record Image". West Virginia Vital Research Records. Retrieved March 11, 2022.
  3. ^ "Post Office Mural - Westerville OH". The Living New Deal. Archived from the original on September 11, 2024. Retrieved March 11, 2022.
  4. ^ "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.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ "Latest Deaths". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. October 12, 1996. pp. C-3. ProQuest 391748215. Retrieved March 11, 2022.
  7. ^ 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.