OLIVE HARRIETT NUHFER (Per Wikipedia the artist was born in 1901. Some sites have her as 1911 for her birthdate which is incorrect). Dancers, 1939, Artist's Title: Children of the Moon, 34" x 48" oil on canvas (framed size: 39-1/2" x 53-1/2") signed/dated lower right: O. Nuhfer 1939. Signed and titled on the back of the canvas. This is a very special 1930's painting by the artist. This magnificent painting compares with the quality of her Mural in the Westerville Ohio Post Office. Another masterpiece by the artist!
Per Wikipedia: Olive Nuhfer (1901-1996) was an American painter. She is best known for her New Deal era mural in the Westerville, Ohio Post Office. Nuhfer nee Austin was born on August 16, 1901, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 1926 she married Leo R. Nuhfer. She attended the University of Oklahoma and the Carnegie Institute of Technology. In 1927, she painted the mural The Daily Mail for the Westerville, Ohio Post Office. The mural was funded by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts (TSFA). Around 1959 , she painted a portrait of Dwight D. Eisenhower which is now in the collection of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Library Museum. Her 1937 portrait Electric Welder is in the Steidle Collection of American Industrial Art at Penn State College of Earth and Mineral Sciences.
In 1961, Nuhfer founded the Penn Arts Association in Penn Hills. She died on October 8, 1996, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
In 2016 her painting, "Pittsburgh Landscape" was included in the exhibition The Gift of Art: 100 Years of Art from the Pittsburgh Public Schools' Collection at the Heinz History Center.

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