biography of Rowena Clement LUNG (1905-1996)

Birth place: Tacoma, WA

Addresses: Tacoma, WA

Profession: Teacher, painter, etcher, writer

Studied: Santa Barbara State Col.; Univ. Idaho; Santa Barbara Sch. A.; & with Colin Cooper, DeWitt Parshall, Albert Herter, Frank M. Fletcher, Ettore Cadorin, C.O. Borg, Armstrong.

Exhibited: S. Indp. A., 1929; Portland AM, 1934; AIC, 1935; SAM, 1936, 1947; GGE; NCFA, 1938; Nat. Mus., Smithsonian, 1938 (solo); Campbell Mem. AM, Spokane (now Cheney Cowles Mus.), 1939-40; Delaware A. Center, 1939; Smithsonian Inst., 1939; Wash. State Col., 1943, 1945-46; A. Assn. Gal., Boise, 1945-46; Tacoma A. Lg., 1950-51, 1955; Santa Barbara Mus. A., 1949; State Mus., Nevada, 1949; Southwest Mus., Los A., 1950; State Hist. Mus., Tacoma, Wash., 1955; State Mus., Olympia, Wash., 1955; Walla Walla, Wash., 1955; Chehalis (Wash.) Pub. Lib., 1955; Maryhill Mus. FA, 1957 (solo).

Member: FAC, Tacoma; Tacoma Civic AA; Tacoma Studio Gld.; Women A. of Wash.; S.Indp.A.; Chicago NISA; Women Painters of Wash.; Nat. Lg. Am. Pen Women (Founder Tacoma Branch, 1956).

Work: Col. Puget Sound; Pub. Lib., Lowell Sch., both in Tacoma; State Mus., Seattle; Capitol, Boise, Idaho; Chamber Commerce, Lewiston, Idaho; SAM; Ferry Mus. A., Tacoma, Wash.; State Capitol, Boise, Idaho; Tacoma Pub. Lib.; Santa Barbara Mus. Natural Hist.

Comments: Position: hd. a. dept., Grays Harbor Jr. Col., Aberdeen, Wash., 1938-46; instr., State Adult Education Program, Tacoma, Wash., 1950-. Specialty: portraits of Nez Perce Indians. Auth., many journal articles on Native Americans; co-auth., book on artist Paul Kane.

Sources: WW59; WW47; Trip and Cook, Washington State Art and Artists.