Eldora Lorenzini Explained

Eldora Lorenzini
Birth Place:	Weldona, Colorado
Death Place:	Alliance, Nebraska
Nationality:	American
Education:	Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center
Field:	painting

Eldora Lorenzini (1910–1993) was an American painter, known for her New Deal mural in the Hebron, Nebraska Post Office.^[1] She also worked for the Index of American Design.

Biography

Lorenzini was born in 1910 in Weldona, Colorado.^[1] She attended the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center.^[2] Lorenzini was made aware of the Treasury Relief Art Project (TRAP) by one of her teachers, George Biddle. She subsequently submitted her entry for a mural and was selected for the US Post Office-Hebron.^[3] Her oil on canvas mural entitled Stampeding Buffaloes Stopping Train was completed in 1939.^{[4] [5]} She was paid $670.00 for her work.^[2]

Lorenzini never married. She worked as an art teacher, illustrator, muralist and portrait painter. She died in Alliance, Nebraska in 1993.^[1]

Her work for the Index of American Design is in the collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.^[6]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Eldora Pauline Lorenzini . Museum of Nebraska Art . 20 March 2017 . May 13, 2019.
2. Web site: Post Office Mural - Hebron NE . Living New Deal . 7 March 2022.
3. Web site: Stampeding Buffaloes Stopping Train . National Postal Museum . 7 March 2022 . en.
4. Web site: [{{NRHP url|id=92000473}} National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: US Post Office--Hebron ]. National Park Service. Carol Ahlgren . August 1991 . May 13, 2019. With
5. Web site: Artist: Eldora Lorenzini . New Deal Art Registry . 7 March 2022.
6. Web site: Eldora P. Lorenzini . National Gallery of Art . May 13, 2019.