Alba Almquist - Artist Info

About Alba Almquist

Name variants

Alba Malm Dahlquist, Alba Malm
  • Biography

    Born Lindsborg, Kansas, 1897 and died in Lindsborg, 1986. Alba Almquist was a painter and craftswoman. She received a B.A. degree from Bethany College, Lindsborg where she was a pupil of her father, Gustav Malm Almquist.

    She did graduate work at the University of Kansas, Lawrence on a science scholarship and taught for many years in schools in and around Lindsborg.

    SOURCES:
    Susan Craig, "Biographical Dictionary of Kansas Artists (active before 1945)"
    Kansas City Times (March 17, 1937); Arts in Kansas N.P.: American Association of University Women. Kansas Division. 1958; Sandzén files

    This and over 1,750 other biographies can be found in Biographical Dictionary of Kansas Artists (active before 1945) compiled by Susan V. Craig, Art & Architecture Librarian at University of Kansas.

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