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Eve Drewelowe's journals, volumes II-III, 1950s
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62. at that time. Now this same school has greatly broadened its courses - far beyond those of neighbouring state universities - and with enviable facilities and a well manored teaching staff gives in addition to the A.B. and A.M. of my time also a B.F.A., M.F.A. and a PhD. Of it is said "Iowa is one of the first universities to grant equal recognition to history of art and creative art, and to sponsor the integration of the two. Probably no other university offers an equal variety of degrees with such advantages for specializing in creative art". And thus it is, that I became a pioneer, and helped to establish a graduate school in the Fine Arts School and become the first Master of Arts in painting. In my graduate work, for once in my life, I was wholly happy. For was I not pursuing my art, and was I not applying myself to painting - the one thing I wanted most to do above any other-? Was I not painting practically all the hours of five and even six days a week? Although the training was largely academic, somewhat uninspired, and often far from the creative, still I was obtaining that necessary knowledge of form, value and color
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62. at that time. Now this same school has greatly broadened its courses - far beyond those of neighbouring state universities - and with enviable facilities and a well manored teaching staff gives in addition to the A.B. and A.M. of my time also a B.F.A., M.F.A. and a PhD. Of it is said "Iowa is one of the first universities to grant equal recognition to history of art and creative art, and to sponsor the integration of the two. Probably no other university offers an equal variety of degrees with such advantages for specializing in creative art". And thus it is, that I became a pioneer, and helped to establish a graduate school in the Fine Arts School and become the first Master of Arts in painting. In my graduate work, for once in my life, I was wholly happy. For was I not pursuing my art, and was I not applying myself to painting - the one thing I wanted most to do above any other-? Was I not painting practically all the hours of five and even six days a week? Although the training was largely academic, somewhat uninspired, and often far from the creative, still I was obtaining that necessary knowledge of form, value and color
Iowa Women’s Lives: Letters and Diaries
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