Miriam Ibling (February 17, 1895 – November 9, 1985) was an American muralist who worked on art projects for the New Deal's Section of Painting and Sculpture creating public art in Minnesota. Her lithograph Sheep Resting is in the collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
Miriam Ibling | |
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| Born | Anne Miriam Christine Iblings February 17, 1895 |
| Died | November 9, 1985 (aged 90) |
| Nationality | American |
| Other names | Marian Ebling |
| Occupation(s) | artist, muralist |
| Years active | 1935-1942 |
| Known for | murals |
Early life
editAnne Miriam Christine Iblings was born on February 17, 1895, in Parkersburg, Butler County, Iowa to Anna (née Paul) and Christopher Iblings.[1][2] After graduating from Sioux Falls Baptist College, Ibling attended the Minneapolis School of Art, studying three years under Cameron Booth.[2][3] She then studied for a year at the University of Minnesota before founding with other students, the Art League of Minneapolis.[3]
Career
editFrom 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.[4] 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.;[5] an outdoor scene from 1936 which was featured on a wall in the basement of the Central High School;[6][7] 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.[8] In the Lymanhurst Hospital playroom she created a mural called Alice in Wonderland in 1937.[Notes 1] In 1938, she painted a mural, Mother Goose in the historic school building, now known as Merrill Hall, at the Minnesota State Public School for Dependent and Neglected Children.[4]
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.[16] Her 1941 design, Orchestra, Attending the Opera, and Country Band Concert for Galtier Elementary School, in St. Paul, combined three studies illustrating American music.[17][18] 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.[19][20][21] In 1943, Ibling created murals with Charles Morgan for the Minneapolis Service Men's Center,[22] which was the year that the federal artist's program ended.[4]
After her WPA period, Ibling taught until 1946 at Cherry Lawn School in Darien, Connecticut,[23] before relocating to California in the early 1950s.[24]
Death and legacy
editIbling died on November 9, 1985, in Monterey, Monterey County, California.[25]
Notes
edit- ^ Though the Federal Writer's Project and O'Sullivan call this painting Mother Goose,[9][10] McCarney's project inventory calls it Alice in Wonderland,[11] 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)".[3] The Minnesota Historical Society identifies the same painting with both names.[12][13] 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,[14] 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"[15] point to the painting being Alice in Wonderland.
References
editCitations
edit- ^ State Historical Society of Iowa 1943.
- ^ a b Johnson 1976, p. 22.
- ^ a b c "American Paintings and Sculpture" 1986, p. 213.
- ^ a b c National Register of Historic Places 2012, p. 24.
- ^ National Gallery of Art 2017.
- ^ McCarney 2004, p. 6.
- ^ Minnesota State Historical Society (a) 2016.
- ^ Federal Writers' Project 2013, p. 433.
- ^ Federal Writers' Project 2013, p. 230.
- ^ O'Sullivan 1993, p. 190.
- ^ McCarney 2004, p. 7.
- ^ Minnesota State Historical Society (b) 2016.
- ^ Minnesota State Historical Society (c) 2016.
- ^ Gustafson 2014, p. 3.
- ^ Carroll 2009.
- ^ Remember When 2015, p. 3.
- ^ O'Sullivan 1993, p. 188.
- ^ Crump 2009, p. 42.
- ^ Minnesota State Historical Society (d) 2016.
- ^ Minnesota State Historical Society (e) 2016.
- ^ Minnesota State Historical Society (f) 2016.
- ^ McCarney 2004, p. 8.
- ^ Cherry Lawn School 2007.
- ^ The Oakland Tribune 1951, p. 43.
- ^ Department of Public Health Services 1985.
Bibliography
edit- Carroll, Lewis (2009). Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. New York, New York: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. ISBN 978-1-4027-5422-7.
- Crump, Robert (2009). Minnesota Prints and Printmakers, 1900-1945. St. Paul, Minnesota: Minnesota Historical Society. ISBN 978-0-87351-635-8.
- Federal Writers' Project (2013). The WPA Guide to Minnesota: The North Star State. San Antonio, Texas: Trinity University Press. ISBN 978-1-59534-221-8.
- Gustafson, Scott (illustrator) (2014). Favorite Nursery Rhymes from Mother Goose. Seymour, Connecticut: The Greenwich Workshop Press. ISBN 978-0-86713-169-7.
- Johnson, Nancy A. (1976). Accomplishments: Minnesota Art Projects in the Depression Years: Essay and Catalog. Duluth, Minnesota: Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota.
- McCarney, Katie (March 2004). Appendix IV: Minnesota's WPA Murals—Annotated List (PDF) (BA). St. Joseph, Minnesota: College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 November 2014. Retrieved 3 March 2017.
- O'Sullivan, Thomas (Spring 1993). "A Job and a Movement: The WPA Federal Art Project in Minnesota" (PDF). Minnesota History Magazine. 53 (5). St. Paul, Minnesota: Minnesota Historical Society: 184–195. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 January 2016. Retrieved 3 March 2017.
- "75 Years Ago: From the Shakopee Argus-Tribune" (PDF). Remember when. 1 (3). Shakopee, Minnesota: Shakopee Heritage Society: 2–3. March 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 March 2017. Retrieved 3 March 2017.
- American Paintings and Sculpture in the University Art Museum collection. Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota. 1986. ISBN 978-0-938-71300-5.
- "Attending the Opera". Minnesota State Historical Society. St. Paul, Minnesota. 2016. Archived from the original on 3 March 2017. Retrieved 3 March 2017.
- "Clement Haupers and artist Miriam Ibling viewing Ibling's mural in basement of Central High School, Fourth Avenue South and Thirty Fourth, Minneapolis". Minnesota State Historical Society. St. Paul, Minnesota. 2016. Archived from the original on 3 March 2017. Retrieved 3 March 2017.
- "Country Band Concert". Minnesota State Historical Society. St. Paul, Minnesota. 2016. Archived from the original on 3 March 2017. Retrieved 3 March 2017.
- "Good Direction". Oakland, California: The Oakland Tribune. December 10, 1951. Retrieved 4 March 2017 – via Newspaperarchive.com.
- "Ibling, Miriam". National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C. 2017. Archived from the original on 3 March 2017. Retrieved 3 March 2017.
- "Iowa, Delayed Birth Records, 1850-1939". FamilySearch. Des Moines, Iowa: State Historical Society of Iowa. July 14, 1943. certificate #158637. Retrieved 2 March 2017.
- "Minnesota State Public School for Dependent and Neglected Children" (PDF). Minnesota Historical Society. St. Paul, Minnesota. May 2012. OMB #1024-0018. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 April 2016. Retrieved 3 March 2017.
- "Miriam Ibling". FamilySearch. Sacramento, California: Department of Public Health Services. November 9, 1985. Retrieved March 3, 2017.
- "Miriam Ibling-Art Teacher". Cherry Lawn School. Darien, Connecticut. May 2007. Archived from the original on 25 July 2008. Retrieved 3 March 2017.
- "Miriam Ibling at work on "Alice in Wonderland" mural, Lymanhurst Hospital, Minneapolis". Minnesota State Historical Society. St. Paul, Minnesota. 2016. Archived from the original on 3 March 2017. Retrieved 3 March 2017.
- ""Mother Goose" mural by Miriam Ibling at Lymanhurst Hospital, Minneapolis". Minnesota State Historical Society. St. Paul, Minnesota. 2016. Archived from the original on 3 March 2017. Retrieved 3 March 2017.
- "Orchestra". Minnesota State Historical Society. St. Paul, Minnesota. 2016. Archived from the original on 3 March 2017. Retrieved 3 March 2017.
