Miriam Ibling
Miriam Ibling (born Anne Miriam Christine Iblings; February 17, 1895 – November 9, 1985) was an American muralist who created public art in Minnesota for the Works Progress Administration during the 1930s. She studied at the Minneapolis School of Art and the University of Minnesota and helped found the Art League of Minneapolis.
From 1935 to 1942, Ibling painted murals around Minneapolis, taught art, and did graphic design. Her works include Sheep Resting (1935), a lithograph now in the National Gallery of Art; an outdoor scene at Stillwater High School (1936); Youth and the Modern World, a fresco-secco mural in Stillwater High School’s auditorium; Alice in Wonderland (1937) at Lymanhurst Hospital; The Picnic and The Merry-Go-Round (1938) in Merrill Hall at the Minnesota State Public School for Dependent and Neglected Children; and in 1941 three silk-screen panels for Galtier Elementary School—Orchestra, Attending the Opera, and Country Band Concert. Drafts for these works are in the Minnesota Historical Society. In 1943, she collaborated with Charles Morgan on murals for the Minneapolis Service Men's Center, the year the federal art program ended.
After the WPA period, Ibling taught at the State Reformatory for Women in the 1940s and had an exhibition of the reformatory’s work in 1940. She also taught at Cherry Lawn School in Darien, Connecticut, until 1946, before moving to California in the early 1950s. Miriam Ibling died in Monterey, California, in 1985.
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