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Series 5: Artwork, 1896-1957, undated (Boxes 3-4, 7, OV 8-12; 1 linear foot)

This series contains loose sketches and drawings, sketchbooks, woodcuts, and lithographs by Olive Rush, along with a few artworks created by others.

Sketches and Drawings are grouped by subject matter, with those representing Rush's murals and frescoes filed separately. There is some crossover among the subject categories, and sketches and drawings made for murals in particular are likely to be found in other categories. Although most sketches are unidentified, murals and frescoes known to be represented here include Rush's Federal Art Project murals at the Santa Fe Public Library, the New Mexico College of Agricultural and Mechanical Arts, and the Pawhuska, Oklahoma Post Office. Also represented are privately commissioned works, including murals and frescoes created for the La Fonda Hotel of Santa Fe, the Sandia School in Albuquerque, and the homes of Florence Barrett, Cyrus McCormick, and Mary Wheelwright, among others. Photographs of many of Rush's murals and frescoes are found in Series 7.

Among the other sketches and drawings are scenes of Native American reservation life, scenes from home and travel destinations, studies for Rush's illustrations, portraits, and other paintings, and abstract, non-objective drawings. Sketches and Drawings are mostly executed in pencil, but are also found in colored pencil, charcoal, watercolor, pen and ink, crayon, and oil.

Sketchbooks contain a similar range of subjects and media, with sketches sometimes accompanied by notes and information about location and date of execution. Artwork by Others includes works by Charles Barrows, Edgar Miller, Dorothy Stewart, Mootzka, Will Shuster, and Ethel Pennewill Brown Leach. See Correspondence for prints received by Rush as greeting cards. Additional drawings by Ethel P.B. Leach are found in Biographical Materials.

Box
3		Sketches and Drawings
3	9-16	Murals and Frescoes, circa 1919-1938, undated (7 folders; see also OV 8 and 12)
3	17-25	Landscapes, 1897-1948, undated (9 folders; see also OV 9)
3	26-36	Figures, 1912-1957, undated (11 folders; see also OV 10 and 12)
3	37-43	Animals, 1896-1951, undated (7 folders; see also OV 11)
3	44-45	Flora, undated (2 folders; see also OV 11)
3	46-47	Abstract, undated (2 folders)
3	48	Sketches of Native American Art, undated
3	49	Miscellaneous Subjects, 1883, undated
3	50-56	Sketchbooks, 1912-1930 (7 folders)

Box	Folder
4	1-7	Sketchbooks, 1931-1948, undated (7 folders; see also Box 7)
4	8-9	Woodcuts and Lithographs, 1926, undated (2 folders, including duplicates)
4	10	Artwork by Others, 1927, undated (see also OV 11)
4	11	Children's Drawings, undated

Box
7 (sol)		Oversized Sketchbook (See Box 4, F7)

Box
8 (OV)		Oversized Sketches for Murals and Frescoes (See Box 2, F10)

Box
9 (OV)		Oversized Sketches of Landscapes (See Box 2, F17)

Box
10 (OV)		Oversized Sketches of Figures (See Box 3, F26)

Box
11 (OV)		Oversized Sketches of Animals (See Box 3, F37)
11 (OV)		Oversized Sketches of Flora (See Box 3, F44)
11 (OV)		Oversized Artwork by Others (See Box 4, F10)

Box
12 (OV)		Large Oversized Sketches for Murals and Frescoes (See Box 3, F10)
12 (OV)		Large Oversized Sketches of Figures (See Box 3, F26)

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