A portrait of Theodore Parvin is included in the Annals of Iowa article "A Library in the Making: Pioneer History of of the Territorial and State Library of Iowa."
In 1838, Robert Lucas, who had been appointed Governor of the new Territory of…
Marilyn McMurry Annin was born in 1938, and has spent about equal thirds of her life in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Iowa. She painted for many years, but in the 1980s, switched to sculpture, mostly in the form of rigid garments.
The artists who made Women of Strength are all incarcerated at the Iowa Correctional Institution for Women. In collaboration with Rachel Williams and Jane Parsons, they designed, sewed and painted a multi-panel mural incorporating the likenesses of…
