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|  Landscape painter Eve Drewelowe, the eighth of thirteen children, was born on April 15, 1899 in New Hampton, Iowa, where she grew up. She attended the University of Iowa, Iowa City, from 1919-1924, receiving a B.A. degree in art in 1923, an M.A. degree in fine art in 1924. During nearly seven decades as an artist, from age twenty-one until her death at age eighty-nine--working in impressionist, social realist and abstract expressionist styles--Drewelowe executed more than one thousand works in oil, watercolors, pen and ink, and other media.
Married in 1923 to Jacob Van Ek, she went with her husband to Boulder, Colorado, where he taught at the University of Colorado, becoming dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. Drewelowe taught there briefly, as well, in 1927-1928 and 1936-1937. Though she painted during foreign trips taken with her husband in 1928-1929, 1935, 1967, and 1968-1969, her special interest was reserved for the Colorado West, as the following titles of some of her works indicate: Miners at Marshall; Brainered Lake, Colorado; Grand Canyon; Yellowstone Valley; Pine and Peak, Aspen, Colorado; Painted Desert; Towering above Timberline; and Cliff Dwellings #2 Mesa Verde.
Drewelowe had one-person exhibitions at the University of Colorado, 1930; the Denver Art Museum, 1933, 1936, 1939; and the Argent Galleries, New York, 1940, 1941. Other exhibitions included the Denver Art Museum; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha; Kansas City Art Institute; PAFA; AIC; New York World's Fair; NAWA; and NMWA.
Drewelowe's works are found in the collections of the University of Colorado; University of Iowa School of Art and Art History, Iowa City; Harkness House, London; and Utah State University, Logan. Eve Drewelowe died on October 22, 1988, in Boulder.
References: WWWAA; WWAA 1953-1986; Trenton; Ness and Orwig; Drewelowe; Kehl & Luppen; Early Yrs: E Drewelowe; Colo Heritage, Sumr 1990; Daily Camera (Boulder), 10 Jun 1937, 30 Sep 1940, 11 Mar 1983, 23 Oct 1988, 20 Jan 1989; Denver Post, 25 Oct 1988; Rocky Mtn News (Denver), 24 Oct 1988; E Drewe-lowe Colln, Univ of Iowa; US Cen 1900, Chickasaw Co, IA, ED 36, pg 11; J Luppen (Drewelowe Studio, Denver), 1988, 1992.
Source:
Phil Kovinick and Marian Yoshiki Kovinick, "An Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West"
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Biography from David Cook Galleries (A-L):
|  Born in New Hampton, Iowa, Eve Drewelowe graduated from Hampton High School in 1919 and then studied at the University of Iowa in Iowa City. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree (Graphic and Plastic Arts). Drewelowe went on to become the first recipient of a Masters of Painting degree at the University of Iowa in 1924.
Following her graduation, Eve moved to Boulder, Colorado, with her husband, Jacob Van Ek, whom she married in 1923. In Boulder, her husband worked at the University of Colorado eventually becoming the Dean of Arts and Sciences. Drewelowe also taught at the University, first at the School of Engineering during 1927-1928, then in the Department of Fine Arts (summer sessions) during 1936-1937.
The couple traveled extensively beginning with a thirteen-month trip (1928-29) in which they visited twenty-three countries in the South Pacific, Asia, Africa, and Europe. During that time, Drewelowe filled seven sketchbooks. A trip in 1935 took them to Denmark, Finland, England, France, Italy, Greece, Turkey, and Russia. The artist later spent two months in Mexico in 1967 and the following two years were spent traveling the South Pacific.
Though a number of her works in oil, watercolors, and pen and ink depict her travels, Eve’s love of Colorado and the West is apparent through the number of pieces she created depicting the region.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
Boulder Artists Guild, 1926-46; Denver Art Museum group 1926, 1929-45, 1949 (group exhibits), 1964-69; University of Colorado Art Galleries (solo exhibits), 1930, 1939-40, 1944, 1949-50, 1973, 1978-79, 1983-84; Denver Art Museum (solo exhibits) 193, 1936, 1939; Joslyn Memorial, 1934, 1936-39, 1042, 1944; University of Oklahoma, 1935; Kansas City Art Institute, 1935, 1937, 1940, 1942; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, 1936; Prairie Watercolor Association, 1936-46; University of Colorado, 1937; National Exhibition of American Art, New York City, 1938; Eighteenth Annual Watercolor Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago, 1939; World’s Fair, New York, 1939-40; National Association of Women Artists, 1939-44, 1946; Argent Gallery, England, 1948-49; Midwestern Show, Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum, Kansas City, Missouri, 1960; The West – 80 Contemporaries, University of Arizona, Tucson, 1967; Midtown Gallery, New York City, 1989; National Museum of Women in the Arts, 1989. Works Held (selected): University of Colorado; University of Iowa School of Art and Art History; Utah State University, Logan; Harkness House, London.
FURTHER READING
"Encyclopedia of Women Artists of the American West", Phil Kovinick and Marian Yoshiki-Kovinick with a foreword by William H. Goetzmann, University of Texas Press, Austin: 1998.
"Eve Drewelowe", University of Iowa School of Art and Art History, Iowa City, Iowa, 1988.
"Independent Spirits: Women Painters of the American West", 1890-1945, Patricia Trenton, Ed., Published for the Autry Museum of Western Heritage by the University of California Press, Berkeley & Los Angeles, California, 1995.
"Who Was Who in American Art 1564-1975: 400 Years of Artists in America", Vol. 1. Peter Hastings Falk, Georgia Kuchen and Veronica Roessler, eds.,Sound View Press, Madison, Connecticut, 1999. 3 Vols. |
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