Olive Nuhfer Explained

Olive Harriett Nuhfer
Birth Name:Olive Harriett Austin
Birth Date:August 16, 1901
Birth Place:Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Death Place:Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Nationality:American
Field:muralist

Olive Nuhfer (1901-1996) was an American painter. She is best known for her New Deal era mural in the Westerville, Ohio Post Office.

Biography

Nuhfer née Austin was born on August 16, 1901, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.[1] [2] In 1926 she married Leo R. Nuhfer.[3] She attended the University of Oklahoma and the Carnegie Institute of Technology.[1] In 1937 she painted the mural The Daily Mail for the Westerville, Ohio Post Office. The mural was funded by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts (TSFA).[4] Around 1959 she painted a portrait of Dwight D. Eisenhower, which is now in the collection of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Library-Museum.[5] Her 1937 portrait Electric Welder is in the Steidle Collection of American Industrial Art at Penn State College of Earth and Mineral Sciences.[1]

In 1961, Nuhfer founded the Penn Arts Association in Penn Hills, Pennsylvania.[6]

She died on October 8, 1996, in Pittsburgh.[7] [1]

In 2016, her painting Pittsburgh Landscape was included in the exhibition The Gift of Art: 100 Years of Art from the Pittsburgh Public Schools' Collection at the Heinz History Center.[8]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Electric Welder . EMS Steidle Collection . 11 March 2022.
  2. Web site: Olive Harriett Austin Nuhfer (1901-1996) . Find a Grave . 11 March 2022 . en.
  3. Web site: Record Image . West Virginia Vital Research Records . 11 March 2022.
  4. Web site: Post Office Mural - Westerville OH . Living New Deal . 11 March 2022.
  5. Web site: Dwight D. Eisenhower . Catalog of American Portraits . National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution . 11 March 2022.
  6. Web site: Grants encourage arts group in Penn Hills. . Pittsburgh Post-Gazette . 11 March 2022.
  7. Web site: Latest Deaths . Pittsburgh Post - Gazette . 11 March 2022. .
  8. Web site: Pittsburgh Public Schools display 'The Gift of Art' at Heinz History Center . Pittsburgh Post-Gazette . 11 March 2022 . en.