biography of Elizabeth Anne MOELLER (1906-?)

Birth place: Davenport, IA

Addresses: Davenport, IA

Profession: Painter, museum director, teacher, lecturer

Studied: State Univ. Iowa (A.B., 1928; A.M., 1931); PAFA; Catherine Macartney; Francis Speight; Roy C. Nuse; research fellowship in art from Laura Spelman Rockefeller Found..

Exhibited: Joslyn Mem.; Des Moines Pub. Lib.; Mem. Union, Iowa City; Davenport Munic. Art Gal., 1931 (prize), 1934 (prize), 1936 (prize); Rockford AA, 1934 (hon. men.).

Member: Iowa AG.

Work: Rock Island Pub. Sch.

Comments: Positions: art instr., experimental schools, Univ. Iowa, 1928-31; Iowa Child Welfare Research Station, 1929-31; art dir., Frances Shimer Jr. College, 1931-34 (concurrently, dir., Dickerson Art Gal. & hd. dept. art); art instr. & art supervisor, Univ. Montana State Normal College, 1934-36; art dir., Frances Shimer Jr. College, 1936-38; art dir., Davenport Munic. Art Gal., 1938-.

Sources: WW47; Ness & Orwig, Iowa Artists of the First Hundred Years, 147-48.