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Olive Wiprud, oil, Sacagawea portrait, 14" x 12", framed

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Olive Wiprud, oil, Sacagawea portrait, 14  x 12 , framed
Olive Wiprud, oil, Sacagawea portrait, 14" x 12", framed
Wiprud, Olive. 1900-1958. Born in Canton, Ohio and moved to Swan Lake, Montana where she met husband Sam whom she taught to be an artist. In the 1930s, they created molded and painted figures selling them throughout the west. They lived in Key West and California, moving back to Montana in the 1940s. They moved to a small cabin on the Flathead Reservation painting mostly Native American genre and portraits, living there the rest of their lives. They were adopted into the Salish tribe; and their most famous paintings are those at the Saint Ignatius Mission; Saint Kateri Tekakwitha, and life size Mary and Jesus. Their paintings are held at the Ravalli County Museum in Hamilton, Montana.