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Lois Ireland Zwettler

Lois Ireland Zwettler (1928 - 2020) was active/lived in Wisconsin, Minnesota.  Lois Zwettler is known for Regionalist landscape painting-rural scene, lithography.

Her paintings had a sense of authenticity, art critics said, capturing the farmlands and lives of people with an empathy that comes from being one of them, and an appreciation of color and an eye for detail that seemed almost intuitive.

Lois Ireland Zwettler was largely self-taught and painted her corner of the world — central Wisconsin — beginning in the late 1940s. Her work drew the attention of one of the nation's most celebrated American scene painters, John Steuart Curry, who was the artist-in-residence at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

Zwettler, 92, died Dec. 30 of COVID-19. In recent decades, after the death of her husband, she lived in Hastings and Mahtomedi to be closer to family members in Minnesota.

"She is a fairly singular person in the history of American art, specifically, American modernism, the art that developed in the United States from 1900 to 1950," said Michael Hall, a retired arts professor from Hamtramck, Mich., who was a friend of   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 8082 characters.]  Artist bio

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