Olive Nuhfer
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| birth_name = Olive Harriett Austin
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| birth_place = Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
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| death_place = Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
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Olive Nuhfer (1901-1996) was an American painter. She is best known for her New Deal era mural in the Westerville, Ohio Post Office.
Biography
Nuhfer née Austin was born on August 16, 1901, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.{{cite web |title=Electric Welder - Olive Harriette Nuhfer - 1937 |url=https://exhibitions.psu.edu/s/EMSMuseum-Steidle-collection/item/4146 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240604151959/https://exhibitions.psu.edu/s/EMSMuseum-Steidle-collection/item/4146 |archive-date=4 June 2024 |access-date=11 March 2022 |website=Steidle Collection of American Industrial Art |publisher=Earth and Mineral Sciences Museum & Art Gallery}} In 1926 she married Leo R. Nuhfer.{{cite web |title=Record Image |url=http://archive.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view2.aspx?FilmNumber=580560&ImageNumber=89 |website=West Virginia Vital Research Records |access-date=11 March 2022}} She attended the University of Oklahoma and the Carnegie Institute of Technology. In 1937 she painted the mural The Daily Mail for the Westerville, Ohio Post Office. The mural was funded by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts (TSFA).{{cite web |title=Post Office Mural - Westerville OH |url=https://livingnewdeal.org/sites/post-office-mural-westerville-oh/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240911212700/https://livingnewdeal.org/sites/post-office-mural-westerville-oh/ |archive-date=11 September 2024 |access-date=11 March 2022 |website=The Living New Deal}} Around 1959 she painted a portrait of Dwight D. Eisenhower, which is now in the collection of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Library-Museum.{{cite web |title=Dwight D. Eisenhower by Olive Harriett Nuhfer [1959] |url=https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_59-712 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240604183830/https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_59-712 |archive-date=4 June 2024 |access-date=11 March 2022 |website=National Portrait Gallery |publisher=Smithsonian Institution}} Her 1937 portrait Electric Welder is in the Steidle Collection of American Industrial Art at Penn State College of Earth and Mineral Sciences.
In 1961, Nuhfer founded the Penn Arts Association in Penn Hills, Pennsylvania.{{cite web |last=Smith |first=Kevin M. |date=14 January 1988 |title=Grants encourage arts group in Penn Hills |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=xNJaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=4W0DAAAAIBAJ&pg=4995%2C3649535 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240911215049/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=xNJaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=4W0DAAAAIBAJ&pg=4995%2C3649535 |archive-date=11 September 2024 |access-date=11 March 2022 |website=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |via=Google News Archive}}
She died on October 8, 1996, in Pittsburgh.{{Cite news |date=October 12, 1996 |title=Latest Deaths |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/391748215 |access-date=March 11, 2022 |work=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |pages=C-3 |id={{ProQuest|391748215}}}}
In 2016, her painting Pittsburgh Landscape was included in the exhibition The Gift of Art: 100 Years of Art from the Pittsburgh Public Schools' Collection at the Heinz History Center.{{cite web |last=Thomas |first=M. |date=November 5, 2016 |title=Pittsburgh Public Schools display 'The Gift of Art' at Heinz History Center |url=https://www.post-gazette.com/news/education/2016/11/06/Pittsburgh-Public-Schools-display-The-Gift-of-Art-at-Heinz-History-Center/stories/201611060073 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200812183521/https://www.post-gazette.com/news/education/2016/11/06/Pittsburgh-Public-Schools-display-The-Gift-of-Art-at-Heinz-History-Center/stories/201611060073 |archive-date=August 12, 2020 |access-date=March 11, 2022 |website=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |language=en}}
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Category:20th-century American painters
Category:20th-century American women painters