Artwork Details
15 x 22-1/4 in.
Mark Descriptionsigned in ink, L.R.: Olive Rush | inscribed and signed in pencil, verso, U.R.: Clouds and Gazelles / by Olive Rush / Sante Fe N.M.
Accession NumberMary B. Milliken Fund
CopyrightPrints, Drawings, and Photographs
Color Palette(Artist); purchased by the John Herron Art Institute now the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, Indianapolis, Indiana in 1939.
When Olive Rush bought an adobe house on Canyon Road in Santa Fe in 1919, she was among the early artists transplanted there from the East. She had a diversified artistic career ranging from oils, to watercolors, to mural painting.
Clouds and Gazelles is closely related to a federally funded mural that Rush painted in the post office in Florence, Colorado in 1939.
Her murals, painted flatly against indeterminate backgrounds, have a kinship to Chinese and Native American painting, both of which Rush admired.
Exhibition Name
Venue
Dates
Out of the Shadows: Art by Indiana Women (01/27/2006 - 04/02/2006)
Indianapolis Museum of Art at Columbus
January 17, 2006 - April 9, 2006
A Century of American Watercolors
Indianapolis Museum of Art Columbus Gallery
August 9, 1998 - October 4, 1998
A Century of American Watercolors from the Collection
Indianapolis Museum of Art
June 3, 1997 - October 5, 1997
One-Year Loan to Winona Memorial Hospital
June 26, 1967 - August 13, 1968
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