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Gladys M. Lux (1899-2003) was an American artist and educator, known for painting and printmaking. Biography. Lux was born in 1899 in Chapman, Nebraska. She studied to be at teacher at Kearney State College and taught in Nebraska schools for two years before return to study at University of Nebraska in Lincoln.
- 1899, Chapman, Nebraska
- Painting
- 2003 (aged 103–104), Lincoln, Nebraska
- American
Feb 19, 2024 · Official Website of Gladys Marie Lux. ( 1899-2003) . Prolific painter, Professor of Art, and Director of the Art Department at. Nebraska Wesleyan University for forty years. Spending most of her life in Nebraska, she drew and painted many of the things she saw around her. To talk with Gladys was always to learn something new.
Gladys Marie Lux was born in 1899 and raised on a farm near Wood River, Nebraska. Her parents, Clarence Burton Lux and Mary Hannah (Hansen) Lux, instilled in her the values of hard work, family, education, and self-reliance. Farm life in the early 1900s demanded constant attention to domestic tasks such as sewing, cooking, and cleaning, but ...
After Lux’s death in 2003, at the age of 104, the University Place Art Center was renamed the LUX Center for the Arts in her honor. Gladys Lux spent her life in Nebraska partly because she felt such a strong affinity with its landscape. She believed in her home state’s potential and she appreciated its most important asset, the people.
Talented as both an artist and educator, her collection of over 450 prints is on view year-round to continue its initial purpose of bringing world-class art to the people of Nebraska. The LUX Print Gallery is located on the second floor of the Lux Center for the Arts. Please join us for a conversation with the collection curator Susan Soriente.
Nebraska Wesleyan University, Lincoln, NE: 1927-1967 Chadron State College, Chadron, NE: 1934
Gladys M. Lux. ca.1935 / 1. art.gsa.gov. An official website of the General Services Administration ...
