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From - Ted LeVeiress' notes for article in notes on Murals and frescoes, etc. Desert Magazine partly used in Desert Mag

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in Palo Alto, Calif.

Miss Rush's use of Indian material has been augmented by a consuming interest in Indian art. Some of the most talented Pueblo Navajo painters owe a large measure of their success to her inspiration and encouragement. In the 1930's Chester Faris asked Miss Rush to do a series of murals for the dining room at [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] the Santa Fe Indian School, of which he was then principal. She declined for herself, but offered to help a number of student Indian artists depict some of the everyday scenes from their own experiences in the pueblos and on the reservations nearby. The result is a group of reminiscences in oil of a way of life that is slipping gradually into legend.

These Indian murals were so favorably received that soon after their completion Miss Rush was commissioned to direct another series by Indian artists for the Maisel Building in Albuquerque. These "Maisel murals," as they are called, were done in casein. She worked on the scaffold alongside these energetic, resourceful young people, and for this project did three of the panels herself.

It is for murals such as these and for her frescoes that Olive Rush is perhaps best known. She has done murals for the New Mexican Room at La Fonda, a Santa Fe resort hotel; post offices at Florence, Colo., and Pawhuska, Okla.; the Biology Building at New Mexico A.&M. College near Las Cruces; and the homes of leading citizens in Chicago, Tulsa, and Santa Fe.

Her frescoes, done in the tradition of the Italian school of which Giotto was the acknowledged master, decorate the Public Library as well as the fireplace of her own studio in Santa Fe, and the home of Miss Mary Wheelwright, Alcalde, N.M. In 1955 she presented a fresco, "Socorro," to the Espanola (N.M.) Hospital - it was installed in the 

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I found Chester Faris in Wikipedia