Rural Wisconsin artists honored in Madison exhibit
Wisconsin honor reception highlighted a four site major documentary exhibit in Madison featuring 27 artists from farmers homemakers and other rural life backgrounds. The program began in 1936 with artist in residence John S. Curry and Aaron Bohrod guiding the Rural Arts program, reflecting the Wisconsin Idea as Gov. Earl declared Rural Art Recognition Day.
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Wisconsin farmer Chris Olson among rural artists honored in Madison
Berlin farmer Chris Olson, a longtime still life painter who worked under the New Deal WPA program, is shown with his oil painting Boiled Dinner at Rural Art Recognition Day. Waukesha homemaker Libby Faulkner Nolan poses near It Was That Day as she recalls Rural Art program memories at the State Historical Society event.
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