biography of SISTER MARY IRENA UPTEGROVE (1898-?)

Birth place: Melrose, MN

Addresses: St. Joseph, MN; St. Paul 2, MN

Profession: Educator, designer, painter, illustrator, sculptor

Studied: Univ. Minnesota; College of St. Benedict (B.A.); Univ. Michigan (M.A.); Minneapolis Inst. Art; AIC.

Exhibited: Catholic AA; Univ. Minnesota; Xavier Univ., 1957; Nat. Liturgical Congress, 1958; traveling exh., 1956-58.

Member: Western AA; Catholic AA; CAA

Work: Archbishop Murray Mem. H.S., St. Paul, MN (2 murals); College of St. Benedict, St. Joseph, MN; Mercy Hospital, Battle Creek, MI; St. Paul's Priory.

Comments: Teaching: College of St. Benedict, St. Joseph, MN, until 1948; Mount St. Scholastica, Atchison, KS; Visitation H.S., and Our Lady of Peace H.S., St. Paul, 1955; St. Paul's Priory, St. Paul, MN, 1956-. Illustr.: The Man Who Made the Secret Doors," 1946.

Sources: WW59; WW47."