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FOR RELEASE MONDAY, AUGUST 22, 1966

Submitted by:
Sylvia Loomis
Religious Society of Friends
545 Canyon Road
982-5963

Miss Olive Rush, D.F.A, local artist of international repute, died at St. Vincent Hospital last Saturday evening after a two-year illness. She was 93 years of age.

Best known throughout her long, creative life for her sensitive water colors of animals, her talents also extended to such vigorous works of art as the large fresco murals in the Biology Room of the New Mexico State College at Las Cruces and the Public Library in Santa Fe. Until illness forced her to put away her brushes two years ago, she was still experimenting successfully with the most contemporary media and techniques.

Born in Fairmont, Indiana, of Quaker parents, Miss Rush received her early art training under the late Howard Pyle, and later studied in New York and Paris. Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum, the Worcester Museum, the Phillips Memorial Gallery, Washington, D.C., the Wilmington Society of Fine Arts, the John Herron Art Institute, the Nebraska Art Association, and in many private collections.

In 1914 Miss Rush first visited Santa Fe with her father and was so impressed with the beauty of the country and its people that she returned in 1920 to make it her permanent home. At that time she bought the old Rodriguez house at 630 Canyon Road, where she has lived and painted for almost fifty years. For the past ten years her studio has