Runbeck, Dolores (1898-1994) "Oaks" lithograph, pencil signed in lower left, good condition, image size: 14 x 17 inches. Dolores Gaston Runbeck was born in Atchison, Kansas. Dolores studied painting under Birger Sandzen at Bethany College in Lindsborg, earning a BFA degree in 1928. She learned from Sandzen the use of bright, vivid colors to suggest both light source and patterns of movement; she taught art at Bethany College from 1926-1929.Dolores established her studio in Lindsborg at 116 Mill Street, Lindsborg. She painted with watercolors and oils and made lithographs. Her subjects include floral still life, landscapes, religious and symbolic compositions, portraits and expressionistic abstracts. Runbeck was innovative in that she mixed her colors not on a palette but in the brush itself and applied it directly to dry paper. This technique allowed her to capture a fine-edged brilliance in the details of her pictures, nowhere more evident than in her floral compositions.Advanced study took her to Chicago?s Applied Arts School, New York?s Art Student League and the Chicago Art Institute. She was a charter member of the Prairie Watercolor Painters, a member of the Prairie Print Makers Society and the Kansas Federation of the Arts. She was the first president of the Bethany College Alumni Association and the first woman named to the Bethany College Board of Directors. She was also the organizer and first president of the Lindsborg Artists? Guild.Dolores met Ridge Runbeck at his grocery store in Lindsborg; they married in 1929. Dolores, Ridge and their only child, Dorothy, lived in the same building as her art studio. Runbeck moved to Columbia, Missouri, to live with her daughter, Dorothy Stout from 1963 until her death in 1994.

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24.5 x 28.5 x 1 in

5.2 lb