Mary Hallock Foote is topic of Feb. 16 Olson Seminar
Released on 02/03/2005, at 1:41 PM
Office of University Communications
University of Nebraska–Lincoln
WHEN: Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2005
WHERE: Great Plains Art Museum, 1155 Q Street, Hewit Place
The life and work of Mary Hallock Foote, one of the few female western illustrators of the 19th century, will be the topic of the next Paul A. Olson Seminar in Great Plains Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Jon Nelson, curator emeritus of UNL's Great Plains Art Museum, will discuss "Mary Hallock Foote: A Pre-Raphaelite in the West" from 3:30 to 5 p.m. Feb. 16 at the museum, 1155 Q St. Nelson's lecture and a 3 p.m. reception at the museum are free and open to the public.
Foote, whose life Wallace Stegner fictionalized in his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, "Angle of Repose," trained at the Cooper Union in New York City. Her marriage to a mining engineer took her west in the 1870s and her husband's repeated business failures prompted her to work as an illustrator for popular magazines to support herself and her children. Nelson will discuss how her engraved work is unique among that of other illustrators of western subjects in that its calm repose contrasts with the more dynamic pieces of her contemporaries.
The Olson Seminar series is presented by UNL's Center for Great Plains Studies.
CONTACT: Kim Weide, Center for Great Plains Studies, (402) 472-3964