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"Prairie
Fire"
1941
Artist - Ethel Magafan
Location: Madill,
Oklahoma current post office |
Madill, Oklahoma
WPA Mural “Prairie Fire" by Ethel Magafan
A tempera painting installed in 1941
TE photo |
Artist:
Ethel Magafan
Ethel 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. |
"Prairie
Fire" (detail)
TE photos, 2009
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"Prairie
Fire" (detail)
TE photos, 2009
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"Prairie
Fire" (detail)
TE photos, 2009
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"Prairie
Fire" (detail)
TE photos, 2009
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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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