Muriel Sibell Wolle Collection 1898-1977 1922-1977

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Muriel Sibell Wolle Collection 1898-1977 1922-1977

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Muriel Sibell Wolle was the head of the University of Colorado Fine Arts Department from 1929 to 1947. Her collection consists of selected Western Americana, which is mostly printed material, scrapbooks, articles, manuscripts, scene and costume sketches, programs and other memorabilia, photographs, negatives, slides, and a few books. Her paintings, lithographs, and photographs of Western mining towns form an invaluable historical record of Western America. She had a special interest in Southwestern and Native American Art. The Western History Collections Department of the Denver Public Library holds 29 linear feet of the Muriel Sibell Wolle manuscript collection, including many of her original works of art, maps, photographs, scrapbooks compiled on Western towns, her journals and field notes, various drafts of and several unidentified diaries. Researchers should be aware of these holdings and incorporate them into any research being undertaken. Stampede to Timberline,

39 boxes, 8 cases, oversize; 28.5 linear feet, 1 map case

eng,

University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries. Archives Dept.

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Wolle, Muriel Sibell, 1898-1977

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Colorado author, artist, historian, and lecturer. Born April 3, 1898 Brooklyn, N.Y. Long-time resident of Colorado and art professor at University of Colorado. Died January 9, 1977 Boulder. From the description of Papers, 1926-1976. (Denver Public Library). WorldCat record id: 14117123 Muriel Sibell Wolle was a renowned artist and writer who captured pictorially and in words the spirit of hundreds of old mining towns and mining camps in the American West. Her paintings and s...

Francis Wolle, February 1977

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Muriel Sibell was born in Brooklyn, New York on April 3, 1898 and graduated from the New York School of Fine and Applied Arts in 1920 with diplomas in advertising and costume design. After graduation, she accepted a teaching in position at the Texas State College for Women in Denton, Texas, but returned to New York. An instructor in Art at the Parson School of design from 1923-1926, Sibell began looking for a teaching position in the West. She received a B.S. in Art Education from N...