Miriam Ibling

Anne Miriam Christine Iblings was born on February 17, 1895, in Parkersburg, Butler County, Iowa to Anna (née Paul) and Christopher Iblings.{{sfn|State Historical Society of Iowa|1943}}{{sfn|Johnson|1976|p=22}} After graduating from Sioux Falls Baptist College, Ibling attended the Minneapolis School of Art, studying three years under Cameron Booth.{{sfn|Johnson|1976|p=22}}{{sfn|"American Paintings and Sculpture"|1986|p=213}} She then studied for a year at the University of Minnesota before founding with other students, the Art League of Minneapolis.{{sfn|"American Paintings and Sculpture"|1986|p=213}}

From 1935, Ibling was painting murals in and around Minneapolis for the Works Progress Administration (WPA), in addition to working as an art teacher, graphic designer and painter.{{sfn|National Register of Historic Places|2012|p=24}} She created such works as a 1935 lithograph, Sheep Resting, which is currently in the collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.;{{sfn|National Gallery of Art|2017}} an outdoor scene from 1936 which was featured on a wall in the basement of the Central High School;{{sfn|McCarney|2004|p=6}}{{sfn|Minnesota State Historical Society (a)|2016}} and a mural painted in fresco-secco, Youth and the Modern World in the Stillwater High School. The work, in the school's auditorium, symbolizes both community growth and the advances made in arts and sciences.{{sfn|Federal Writers' Project|2013|p=433}} In the Lymanhurst Hospital playroom she created a mural called Alice in Wonderland in 1937.{{#tag:ref|Though the Federal Writer's Project and O'Sullivan call this painting Mother Goose,{{sfn|Federal Writers' Project|2013|p=230}}{{sfn|O'Sullivan|1993|p=190}} McCarney's project inventory calls it Alice in Wonderland,{{sfn|McCarney|2004|p=7}} as does "American Paintings and Sculpture, which states "She also painted scenes from Alice in Wonderland for the Children's Hospital (later known as the Sister Kenney Memorial Hospital for Children)".{{sfn|"American Paintings and Sculpture"|1986|p=213}} The Minnesota Historical Society identifies the same painting with both names.{{sfn|Minnesota State Historical Society (b)|2016}}{{sfn|Minnesota State Historical Society (c)|2016}} Traditional characters in Mother Goose, "Baa Baa Black Sheep", "Jack and Jill", "Little Bo Peep", "Mary Had a Little Lamb", "The Old Woman and the Shoe", "Three Blind Mice" and others,{{sfn|Gustafson|2014|p=3}} are not in the painting. Traditional Alice characters, "Humpty Dumpty", the "Mad Hatter", the "March Hare", the "Red Knight and "White Knight", "Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee"{{sfn|Carroll|2009}} point to the painting being Alice in Wonderland.|group="Notes"}}

In 1938, she painted two murals, named The Picnic{{Cite journal |title=The Picnic |doi=10.17658/issn.2058-5462/issue-20/nslipp/figure20 |website=Minnesota Historical Society}} and The Merry-Go-Round,{{Cite journal |title=Merry-Go-Round |doi=10.17658/issn.2058-5462/issue-20/nslipp/figure20 |website= Minnesota Historical Society}} in the library of the 1933 historic school building, now known as Merrill Hall at the Minnesota State Public School for Dependent and Neglected Children.{{sfn|National Register of Historic Places|2012|p=24}}

Ibling taught classes at the State Reformatory for Women in the 1940s, and an exhibition of their work was shown in March and April 1940.{{sfn|Remember When|2015|p=3}} Her 1941 design, Orchestra, Attending the Opera, and Country Band Concert for Galtier Elementary School, in St. Paul, combined three studies illustrating American music.{{sfn|O'Sullivan|1993|p=188}}{{sfn|Crump|2009|p=42}} These were done as silk screens and applied to the wall after completion. The draft sketches for the stylized rhythmic figures for the three sections, "Orchestra", "Attending the Opera" and "Country Band Concert" are currently held in the collection of the Minnesota Historical Society.{{sfn|Minnesota State Historical Society (d)|2016}}{{sfn|Minnesota State Historical Society (e)|2016}}{{sfn|Minnesota State Historical Society (f)|2016}} In 1943, Ibling created murals with Charles Morgan for the Minneapolis Service Men's Center,{{sfn|McCarney|2004|p=8}} which was the year that the federal artist's program ended.{{sfn|National Register of Historic Places|2012|p=24}}

After her WPA period, Ibling taught until 1946 at Cherry Lawn School in Darien, Connecticut,{{sfn|Cherry Lawn School|2007}} before relocating to California in the early 1950s.{{sfn|The Oakland Tribune|1951|p=43}}

Ibling died on November 9, 1985, in Monterey, Monterey County, California.{{sfn|Department of Public Health Services|1985}}

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• {{cite book|last=Carroll|first=Lewis|title=Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Dge_RuGdp_QC&pg=PA158|year=2009|publisher=Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.|location=New York, New York|isbn=978-1-4027-5422-7}}
• {{cite book|last=Crump|first=Robert|title=Minnesota Prints and Printmakers, 1900-1945|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pXw4aG1TQpkC&pg=PA42|year=2009|publisher=Minnesota Historical Society|location=St. Paul, Minnesota|isbn=978-0-87351-635-8}}
• {{cite book|last=Federal Writers' Project|title=The WPA Guide to Minnesota: The North Star State|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lmHpCAAAQBAJ&pg=PT433|year=2013|publisher=Trinity University Press|location=San Antonio, Texas|isbn=978-1-59534-221-8}}
• {{cite book|last=Gustafson|first=Scott (illustrator)|title=Favorite Nursery Rhymes from Mother Goose|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BqGsBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA3|year=2014|publisher=The Greenwich Workshop Press|location=Seymour, Connecticut|isbn=978-0-86713-169-7}}
• {{cite book|last=Johnson|first=Nancy A.|title=Accomplishments: Minnesota Art Projects in the Depression Years: Essay and Catalog|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gLBMAQAAMAAJ|year=1976|publisher=Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota|location=Duluth, Minnesota}}
• {{cite thesis|type=BA |last=McCarney |first=Katie |title=Appendix IV: Minnesota's WPA Murals—Annotated List |url=http://www.csbsju.edu/Documents/libraries/Mccarney_Bib.pdf |access-date=March 3, 2017 |publisher=College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University |date=March 2004 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141107183434/http://www.csbsju.edu/Documents/libraries/Mccarney_Bib.pdf |archive-date=November 7, 2014 |location=St. Joseph, Minnesota |url-status=dead }}
• {{cite journal|last1=O'Sullivan |first1=Thomas |title=A Job and a Movement: The WPA Federal Art Project in Minnesota |journal=Minnesota History Magazine |date=Spring 1993 |volume=53 |issue=5 |pages=184–195 |url=http://collections.mnhs.org/MNHistoryMagazine/articles/53/v53i05p184-195.pdf |access-date=March 3, 2017 |publisher=Minnesota Historical Society |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160121193622/http://collections.mnhs.org/MNHistoryMagazine/articles/53/v53i05p184-195.pdf |archive-date=January 21, 2016 |location=St. Paul, Minnesota |url-status=dead }}
• {{cite journal|ref={{harvid|Remember When|2015}} |title=75 Years Ago: From the Shakopee Argus-Tribune |journal=Remember when |date=March 2015 |volume=1 |issue=3 |pages=2–3 |url=http://www.shakopeeheritage.org/wp-content/uploads/remember-when-2015-03.pdf |access-date=March 3, 2017 |publisher=Shakopee Heritage Society |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170303222842/http://www.shakopeeheritage.org/wp-content/uploads/remember-when-2015-03.pdf |archive-date=March 3, 2017 |location=Shakopee, Minnesota |url-status=dead }}
• {{cite book|ref={{harvid|"American Paintings and Sculpture"|1986}}|author=|title=American Paintings and Sculpture in the University Art Museum collection|date=1986|publisher=University of Minnesota|location=Minneapolis, Minnesota|isbn=978-0-938-71300-5}}
• {{cite web|ref={{harvid|Minnesota State Historical Society (d)|2016}} |title=Attending the Opera |url=http://collections.mnhs.org/cms/display.php?irn=10607626&return=count%3D25%26q%3Dibling%26tab%3Dresearch_items |date=2016 |website=Minnesota State Historical Society |access-date=March 3, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170303194152/http://collections.mnhs.org/cms/display.php?irn=10607626&return=count%3D25&q=ibling&tab=research_items |archive-date=March 3, 2017 |location=St. Paul, Minnesota |url-status=dead }}
• {{cite web|ref={{harvid|Minnesota State Historical Society (a)|2016}} |title=Clement Haupers and artist Miriam Ibling viewing Ibling's mural in basement of Central High School, Fourth Avenue South and Thirty Fourth, Minneapolis |url=http://collections.mnhs.org/cms/largerimage.php?irn=10198570&catirn=10825497&return=count=25&q=ibling&startindex=26&tab=research_items |date=2016 |website=Minnesota State Historical Society |access-date=March 3, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170303214518/http://collections.mnhs.org/cms/largerimage.php?irn=10198570&catirn=10825497&return=count%3D25&q=ibling&startindex=26&tab=research_items |archive-date=March 3, 2017 |location=St. Paul, Minnesota |url-status=dead }}
• {{cite web|ref={{harvid|Minnesota State Historical Society (e)|2016}} |title=Country Band Concert |url=http://collections.mnhs.org/cms/display.php?irn=10607627&return=count%3D25%26q%3Dibling%26tab%3Dresearch_items |date=2016 |website=Minnesota State Historical Society |access-date=March 3, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170303194526/http://collections.mnhs.org/cms/display.php?irn=10607627&return=count%3D25&q=ibling&tab=research_items |archive-date=March 3, 2017 |location=St. Paul, Minnesota |url-status=dead }}
• {{cite news|ref={{harvid|The Oakland Tribune|1951}}|author=|title=Good Direction|url=https://newspaperarchive.com/us/california/oakland/oakland-tribune/clippings/Celebrity/211969/|access-date=March 4, 2017|publisher=The Oakland Tribune|date=December 10, 1951|location=Oakland, California|via = Newspaperarchive.com}} {{open access}}
• {{cite web|ref={{harvid|National Gallery of Art|2017}} |title=Ibling, Miriam |url=http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/Collection/artist-info.34239.html |date=2017 |website=National Gallery of Art |access-date=March 3, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170303201438/http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/Collection/artist-info.34239.html |archive-date=March 3, 2017 |location=Washington, D.C. |url-status=dead }}
• {{cite web|ref={{harvid|State Historical Society of Iowa|1943}}|author=|title=Iowa, Delayed Birth Records, 1850-1939|url=https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS3H-39ZK-4?mode=g&cc=2527591|website=FamilySearch|publisher=State Historical Society of Iowa|access-date=March 2, 2017|location=Des Moines, Iowa|date=July 14, 1943|id=certificate #158637}}
• {{cite web|ref={{harvid|National Register of Historic Places|2012}} |title=Minnesota State Public School for Dependent and Neglected Children |url=http://www.mnhs.org/shpo/nrhp/docs_pdfs/0002_mnspsdc.pdf |website=Minnesota Historical Society |access-date=March 3, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160411044235/http://www.mnhs.org/shpo/nrhp/docs_pdfs/0002_mnspsdc.pdf |archive-date=April 11, 2016 |location=St. Paul, Minnesota |date=May 2012 |id=OMB #1024-0018 |url-status=dead }}
• {{cite web|ref={{harvid|Department of Public Health Services|1985}}|author=|title=Miriam Ibling|url=https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VG1P-VMZ|website=FamilySearch|publisher=Department of Public Health Services|access-date=March 3, 2017|location=Sacramento, California|date=November 9, 1985}}
• {{cite web|ref={{harvid|Cherry Lawn School|2007}} |title=Miriam Ibling-Art Teacher |url=http://www.cherrylawnschool.org/pom/photomonth200705.html |date=May 2007 |website=Cherry Lawn School |access-date=March 3, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080725131437/http://www.cherrylawnschool.org/pom/photomonth200705.html |archive-date=July 25, 2008 |location=Darien, Connecticut |url-status=dead }}
• {{cite web|ref={{harvid|Minnesota State Historical Society (b)|2016}} |title=Miriam Ibling at work on "Alice in Wonderland" mural, Lymanhurst Hospital, Minneapolis |url=http://collections.mnhs.org/cms/display.php?irn=10725767&return=q%3Dalice%2520in%2520wonderland |date=2016 |website=Minnesota State Historical Society |access-date=March 3, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170303212728/http://collections.mnhs.org/cms/display.php?irn=10725767&return=q%3Dalice%20in%20wonderland |archive-date=March 3, 2017 |location=St. Paul, Minnesota |url-status=dead }}
• {{cite web|ref={{harvid|Minnesota State Historical Society (c)|2016}} |title="Mother Goose" mural by Miriam Ibling at Lymanhurst Hospital, Minneapolis |url=http://collections.mnhs.org/cms/display.php?irn=10726345&return=count=25 |date=2016 |website=Minnesota State Historical Society |access-date=March 3, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170303212321/http://collections.mnhs.org/cms/display.php?irn=10726345&return=count%3D25 |archive-date=March 3, 2017 |location=St. Paul, Minnesota |url-status=dead }}
• {{cite web|ref={{harvid|Minnesota State Historical Society (f)|2016}} |title=Orchestra |url=http://collections.mnhs.org/cms/display.php?irn=10598613&return=count%3D25%26q%3Dibling%26startindex%3D26%26tab%3Dresearch_items |date=2016 |website=Minnesota State Historical Society |access-date=March 3, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170303200506/http://collections.mnhs.org/cms/display.php?irn=10598613&return=count%3D25&q=ibling&startindex=26&tab=research_items |archive-date=March 3, 2017 |location=St. Paul, Minnesota |url-status=dead }}

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