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| | Born in Sherburne, MN on July 21, 1896. Rollins obtained her M.A. degree at the University of Minnesota and then studied at the Corcoran Art Gallery, Minneapolis School of Art, and with Hans Hofmann and Cameron Booth. While teaching art at the University of Minnesota, she often spent summers in California. She died in Hopkins, MN on March 29, 1989. Exh: Nelson Gallery (Kansas City), 1935, 1936 (prizes); AIC, 1937; Sacramento, CA, 1941; Oakland Art Gallery, 1958; Monterey, CA, 1958. In: University of Minnesota; Virginia (MN) Library. Mural: University High School (Minneapolis). | Source:
Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940"
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Biography from Vern Carver & Beard Art Galleries:
| Josephine Lutz Rollins was born in Sherburne, Minnesota in 1896. Rollins graduated from Cornell College with a BA in 1920 and received her MA from the University of Minnesota in 1940. Rollins studied at the Corcoran Art School in Washington, DC, the Minneapolis School of Art with Cameron booth and J.J.O Nordfeldt, and at the Hans Hoffman School of Art in Munich.
She received the Rockefeller Grant for "Minnesota Mid-Century" and a Univeristy of Minnesota Graduate School grant for various projects in Minnesota, California, and New England.
Rollins' work has been exhibited throughout the US, and locally at the Minnesota State Fair, the Walker Art Center, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and the Minnesota Historical Society.
Rollins started a teaching art at the University of Minnesota in 1927, and retired in 1965. She was director and co-sponsor of the Stillwater Art Colony in Minnesota. |
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