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1912 Whitewater, Wisconsin - 1989 Bozeman, Montana. Known for: Animal, landscape, figure, and botanical painting.
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Graphic artist Jessie Spaulding Wilber was born November 10, 1912, in Whitewater, Wisconsin, spending her early childhood in Illinois and Ohio before moving with her family to Boulder, Colorado, when... Read full biography
Graphic artist Jessie Spaulding Wilber was born November 10, 1912, in Whitewater, Wisconsin, spending her early childhood in Illinois and Ohio before moving with her family to Boulder, Colorado, when she was eight. The majority of her art reflected her lifelong love of nature and natural... Read full biography
Graphic artist Jessie Spaulding Wilber was born November 10, 1912, in Whitewater, Wisconsin, spending her early childhood in Illinois and Ohio before moving with her family to Boulder, Colorado, when she was eight. The majority of her art reflected her lifelong love of nature and natural things---plants, landscapes, animals and people, but a major activity in her art career was the recording and preservation of pictographs and murals painted by the Blackfoot Indians on the exteriors of their... Read full biography
Graphic artist Jessie Spaulding Wilber was born November 10, 1912, in Whitewater, Wisconsin, spending her early childhood in Illinois and Ohio before moving with her family to Boulder, Colorado, when she was eight. The majority of her art reflected her lifelong love of nature and natural things---plants, landscapes, animals and people, but a major activity in her art career was the recording and preservation of pictographs and murals painted by the Blackfoot Indians on the exteriors of their lodges and tipis. This latter interest would result from a 1940 summer visit to Montana that led to a position in the art department of Montana State College (later University), where she would remain for over thirty years, from 1941-1972. Wilber and... Read full biography
Graphic artist Jessie Spaulding Wilber was born November 10, 1912, in Whitewater, Wisconsin, spending her early childhood in Illinois and Ohio before moving with her family to Boulder, Colorado, when she was eight. The majority of her art reflected her lifelong love of nature and natural things---plants, landscapes, animals and people, but a major activity in her art career was the recording and preservation of pictographs and murals painted by the Blackfoot Indians on the exteriors of their lodges and tipis. This latter interest would result from a 1940 summer visit to Montana that led to a position in the art department of Montana State College (later University), where she would remain for over thirty years, from 1941-1972. Wilber and the chairman of the art department, Olga Ross Hannon, began to record the murals and pictogaphs by means of silk-screen. T... Read full biography
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Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
Art Media
- •Fresco Painting, Murals
Art Subject
- •Animals, Mammals
- •Botanics, Plant Life
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Floral Landscape, Wildflowers
- •Floral Still Life, Floral Motifs, Flowers
- •Indians, Native American Specialty
- •Indians, Native Americans
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Wildlife, Wild Animal
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Mural Specialty
- •WPA Artist, Federal Art Project, Murals and Easel Paintings
Exhibition of Museum
- •Brooklyn Museum of Art