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The Stone City Art Colony and School 1932-1933 Louise Orwig |
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Louise Orwig ( ) -- student Born in Mifflinburg, Pennsylvania, Louise Orwig's formal art training involved studies at the Cumming School of Art (Des Moines, IA) and at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (PAFA). Private studies at Provincetown (MA) and Colorado Springs (CO) completed her classroom experience. Orwig was granted PAFA's 1911 foreign studies scholarship; that same year, she received the Des Moines Women's Club first prize for her painting "Conscience." Later awards from the club included first prize for "Bouquet" (1919) and for "Provincetown Street" (1920), and the gold medal/purchase prize for "Young Girl Sewing" (1921). Orwig also claimed the first prize in Iowa's state suffrage poster contest (1916). A noted work, "Potted Plants in Patio," won the Stoddard Prize (1931) from the Iowa Artists Club and circulated nationally in an American Federation of Arts exhibit (1934-1935). Orwig attended the Stone City art colony and continued to exhibit with showings in Omaha (1932), Cincinnati (1935), and across Iowa. Private commissions were found at Roosevelt High School (Des Moines), Drake University (Des Moines), and in the state historical building, Des Moines. Orwig served as secretary for the Des Moines Association of Fine Arts (1913-1918) and as a founding member of the Iowa Artists Club (1928-1932), where she was president from 1933-1934. By the late 1930s, Orwig was the Iowa chairman for the American Artists Professional League and art librarian for the Des Moines Public Library. With Zenobia B. Ness, director of the Iowa Art Salon at the annual state fair, Orwig authored the seminal work Iowa Artists of the First Hundred Years, published in 1939 by the Wallace-Homestead Company of Des Moines. Later details about Orwig's life are being documented. |
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When Tillage Begins: The Stone
City Art Colony and School Researcher & Author: Kristy Raine |
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