Landscape painter Eve Drewelowe, the eighth of thirteen children, was born on April 15, 1899 in New Hampton, Iowa, where she grew up. She attended the University of Iowa, Iowa City, from 1919-1924, receiving a B.A. degree in art in 1923 and an M.A. degree in fine art in 1924. During nearly seven decades as an artist, from age twenty-one until her death at age eighty-nine--working in impressionist, social realist and abstract expressionist styles--Drewelowe executed more than one-thousand works in oil, watercolors, pen and ink, and other media.

Married in 1923 to Jacob Van Ek, she went with her husband to Boulder, Colorado, where he taught at the University of Colorado, becoming dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. Drewelowe tau...