Olive rush
Olive Rush (born June 10, 1873 in Fairmount , Indiana , † August 20, 1966 in Santa Fe , New Mexico ) was an American painter , illustrator and pioneer of American artist education.
Life
Olive Rush came from a Quaker family in Indiana. She studied at Earlham College in Richmond before working as an illustrator in New York in 1895 . Her portraits of women and children were widely known, particularly in Woman's Home Companion and St. Nicholas Magazine . In 1904, Rush moved to Wilmington to at the prestigious art school Brandywine School of Howard Pyle study. In Europe , she studied British and French painters (1911) and finished her art studies at the private School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston . Olive Rush's work was heavily influenced by Asian art and the Spanish painter El Greco . She later taught at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe.
literature
- Stanley L. Cuba: Olive Rush: A Hoosier Artist in New Mexico , Minnetrista Cultural Foundation (1992) ISBN 0-9623291-4-2
Remarks
- ↑ The year of birth is occasionally given as 1875; official documents such as censuses and passenger lists, however, consistently indicate 1873.
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| SURNAME | Rush, Olive |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American painter and illustrator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 10, 1873 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Fairmount , Indiana |
| DATE OF DEATH | 20th August 1966 |
| Place of death | Santa Fe , New Mexico |