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"Prairie Fire"1941
Artist
- Ethel MagafanLocation:
Madill, Oklahoma current post office |
Madill, Oklahoma
WPA Mural "Prairie Fire" detail
TE photo, 2009 |
Artist:
Ethel
MagafanEthel
Magafan and her twin sister Jenne suppored themselves by mural commissions in
the 1930s. Born in 1916, Jenne died suddenly of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1952.
Both women married artists and moved to the art colony in Woodstock, New York
where they worked until their respective deaths, Ethel dying in 1993.
Ethel studied under muralist Frank
Mechau and her work includes murals in Auburn, Nebraska (Threshing), Denver
(Horse Corral) and Madill, Oklahoma (Prairie Fire). The sisters worked together
and Jenne’s mural entitled Cowboy
Dance (Anson, Texas)
is on the short list of favorites of Texas’
nearly ninety (original count) murals. |
Madill,
Oklahoma WPA Mural “Prairie Fire" by Ethel Magafan
A tempera painting
installed in 1941
TE photo |
"Prairie
Fire" (detail)
TE photos, 2009 |
Artist Ethel Magafan's Signature
TE photo |
Ethel
Magafan at Palisades Reservoir Idaho
Courtesy US Dept of the Interior, Bureau
of Reclamation | |
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