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Dolores Gaston Runbeck was a painter, spec. floral still lifes, landscapes, religious and symbolic compositions, portraits, and expessionistic abstracts. She studied at Bethany College, Lindsborg, with Birger Sandzen from 1923-28 and at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Chicago School of Applies Art, and the Art Students League. She was a pupil of Arthur Guptill, Frederick Taubes, Harry Sternberg and Frank Reilly.She taught at Bethany college from 1926-1929 then established her studio in Lindsborg. She was a member of the Prairie Water Color Painters and the Prairie Print Makers Society.
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This untitled, unsigned zinc-plate lithograph is by Charles F. Ramus (1902-1979). He was born in Denver,made a career as a block printer, drawing specialist, engraver, illustrator, lithographer, painter, lecturer, teacher and writer. His work has been collected for private individuals, the National gallery of Art, and a number of works were gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art, of which this appears to be one. Ramus' connection to Birger Sandzen may have been one of "6 degrees of separation" through his acquaintance with John Edward Thompson.
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Other sources and images title this zinc-plate lithograph, "The Temptation of St. Anthony." Charles F. Ramus (1902-1979) was born in Denver,made a career as a block printer, drawing specialist, engraver, illustrator, lithographer, painter, lecturer, teacher and writer. His work has been collected for private individuals, the National gallery of Art, and a number of works were gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art, of which this appears to be one. Ramus' connection to Birger Sandzen may have been one of "6 degrees of separation" through his acquaintance with John Edward Thompson.
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Della Jean Kennedy was born in Ohio, ca. 1887. She was a painter and printmaker, studied at Bethany College, Lindsborg from 1933-38 as a pupil of Birger Sandzen.
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Conrad Buff II (1886-1975) was born in the Swiss village of Speicher, and began sketching when he was a child. He studied briefly at the School of Arts and Crafts in St. Gallen and then hoped to attend the Royal Academy in Munich. His money ran out, he went home, then determined to come to America. His varied experiences brought him into contact with Mary Marsh, associate curator of the Los Angeles Museum of Science, History, and Art, who was also an artist and had studied with Birger Sandzen. Working in CA and Utah, he championed a progressive style of painting that emphasized color and shapes, esp. in his later work.