Josephine Lutz Rollins was born in Sherburne, Minnesota in 1896. She 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, with J.J.O Nordfeldt, and at the Hans Hoffman School of Art in Munich.
Rollins received the Rockefeller Grant for "Minnesota Mid-Century" and a University 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.
Source Vern Carver & Beard Art Galleries
The Luxton Park Painters group began with children's painting classes at Luxton Park, held outdoors from 1956 to 1966. In 1966 artist Norma Olson was hired to conduct classes for adult residents of the Glendale Housing project in Minneapolis. As the program grew, a group of outstanding women artists oversaw classes, programs and art sales. This exhibition looks at 25 paintings by founder Norma Olson as well as a number of the Luxton Park Painters such as Jere Purple, Maggie Moulton, Judy Horns, and Betty Feilzer and others. Jo Rollins was at the forefront of the women's art collectives, which began in the early 1970s.
Source Hennepin History Museum
Book References
Year
Author
Title
Subtitle
2011
L'Enfant, Julie
Pioneer Modernists:
Minnesota's First Generation of Women Artists
2005
Davenport, Ray
Davenport's Art Reference:
The Gold Edition
2005
AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook
34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975
3 Volumes
1985
Petteys, Chris
Dictionary of Women Artists:
An International Dictionary of Women Artists Born Before 1900
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Josephine Lutz Rollins (1896-1989)
