Lot 240: Eve Drewelowe (Van Ek) 1899 - 1989 , Shadows oil on canvas laid down on board

signed Eve Drewelowe Van Ek and dated 1934, l.l. oil on canvas laid down on board

measurements 24 by 29 in. alternate measurements 61 by 73.7 cm.

Denver Art Museum, 41st Annual Exhibition , 1935

Raised in Iowa, Drewelowe had the distinction of being the first recipient of a Masters of Painting degree at the University of Iowa in the early 1920s. However, she spent most of her life in Boulder, Colorado, where her husband, Jacob Van Ek, was Dean of Arts and Sciences at the University of Colorado. She was a prodigious artist and in the course of her long life experimented with various styles--impressionism, social realism and even abstract expressionism. She traveled with her husband extensively throughout the world, taking inspiration from the places she visited. The major part of her work, however, was devoted to her great love of the landscapes of Colorado and the West.