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August 28, 1966
OLIVE RUSH
Olive Rush, internationally-known Quaker artist, died in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on August 20th, after a two-year illness. She was 93 years of age, and had lived in Santa Fe since 1920.
Daughter of two Quaker ministers, Nixon and Louisa Winslow Rush, she was born in Fairmont, Indiana, on June 10, 1873. Her earliest American ancestor came to Virginia in 1609, but his descendants moved on the North Carolina, and were among those Quakers who freed their slaves in the 1820's, as a matter of conscience. 
Olive Rush received her early art training under the illustrator, Howard Pyle, and later studied at the Corcoran Art Gallery, Washington, the Art Students League, New York, and in Paris. Famous for her sensitive water colors of animals, her talents also extended to such vigorous works of art as the large fresco murals in New Mexico State College, Las Cruces, and the Santa Fe Public Library. Her paintings are included in the permanent collection of the Brooklyn Museum, the Worcester Museum, Phillipe Memorial Gallery, the Wilmington Society of Fine Arts, the Houston Fine Arts Museum, and in many private collections. The late Mrs. Herbert Hoover owned one of her oils, entitled "Wavahos". 
In 1947 Olive Rush received the honorary degree of Doctor of Fine Arts at Earlham College, and as recently as 1960 was awarded a grant from the Ingram Merrill Foundation, New York, for a major canvas to be included in the collection of the Museum of New Mexico. Until illness forced her to put away her brushes two years ago, she was still experimenting successfully with the most contemporary media and techniques. 
As evidence of her life-long devotion to Quakerism, Olive Rush has bequeathed her house and studio at 630 Cannon Road as a Meeting