1896, Bucksport, Maine – 1987, Tallahassee, Florida Biographical sketch of artist Tressa Pond Emerson Benson Tressa Pond Emerson Benson Untitled (four figures) oil on board c. 1960s 4 × 5″ Museum Purchase made possible by Clay & Beth Smith Accession No: 2015.29.01 (click image for full view)
Tressa Pond Emerson Benson
1896 Bucksport, Maine – 1987 Tallahassee, Florida (Tressa Pond Emerson) View artwork With a long career as an art teacher and painter, Tressa Benson was known for oil and watercolor landscapes, still lifes, figures, portraits, and city genre scenes in a modernist style. She spent most of her career in Illinois, but was in Lincoln, Read More
Ida May Anderson
1893, Nebraska – 1969, Orange, California Nebraska born to Swedish parents Theodore Curtis Anderson and Katherine Clara (Hoch) Anderson, Ida May Anderson left her native state and by 1930 was living alone in Denver. Moving further west, she was in Los Angeles in 1940 and listed in census records as a teacher with four years Read More
Lucy Maris Lane Anderson
1881, Waterloo, Iowa – 1975, Fort Dodge, Iowa A regionalist painter, organizer of fine art events, and wife and mother, Lucy Anderson completed over 1,000 paintings during her lifetime. She lived mainly in Iowa, although had studied at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center. She also spent some time in Omaha, Nebraska where she briefly Read More
Grace Eugenia Barr Alderman
1877, Parker City, Pennsylvania – 1956, Philipsburg, Kansas Living most of her life in the Nebraska Sandhills, Grace Alderman was an oil painter of regional landscape scenes, and made jewelry and molded and painted figurines. Her granddaughter, Mary Billesbach, described the figures as mostly of young women whom Grace finished with richly-colored dresses and “careful Read More
Clara Marie Allen: MONA collection artwork
1913, San Diego, California – 2007, San Diego, California Biographical sketch of artist Clara Marie Allen Clara Marie AllenPorchy and Bath gouache 1945 12 × 18″ Gift of Lincoln Artists’ Guild Accession No: 2008.25.01 (click image for full view)
Clara Marie Allen
1913, San Diego, California – 2007, San Diego, California View artwork Living primarily in San Diego, Clara Marie Allen spent several years in Nebraska while her husband Fred attended medical school. She was both a public school teacher and a University of Nebraska Art Department instructor, while continuing her own artwork – screen printing, book Read More
Zanna Anderson
1917, Holdrege, Nebraska – 1955, New York City (Lovisanna Anderson) View artwork Only child of Inez and Edo Hilding Anderson, Zanna Anderson, whose formal name was Lovisanna, had artistic talents remarkable enough that by age 21, she had graduated from the National Academy of Design in New York City. She was especially skilled in portraiture. Read More
Jules Tavernier: MONA collection artwork
1844, Paris, France – 1889, Honolulu, Hawaii Biographical sketch of artist Jules Tavernier * Jules Tavernier Indian Sun Dance – Young Bucks Proving Their Endurance by Self-Torture wood engraving published in Harper’s Weekly, January 2, 1875 Gift of Larry Peterson and Gary Zaruba Accession No: 2008.04.26 (click image for full view) Download the free MONA Read More
Frank Rinehart: MONA collection artwork
1862, Lodi, Illinois – 1928, New Haven, Connecticut Biographical sketch of artist Frank Rinehart Frank Rinehart Grant Richards – Chief of the Tonkawa oil on canvas c. 1898-1900 Gift of Cliff Hillegass Accession No: 1994.04 (click image for full view) Frank Rinehart Monk cabinet card n.d. 6½ × 4¼” Gift of Jack Karraker Accession No: 2013.37.01 (click image Read More
