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Born in 1912, Kawa joined the Drake University faculty in 1964. In 1970 she received the top award in the 22nd Iowa Artists Exhibition and one of her paintings was judged as best in the 13th Midwest Bienniel exhibition (1974) at the Joslyn Museum in Omaha.

Source: Bulletin, September-October 1974.


DimensionsOverall: 52 × 84 in. (132.1 × 213.4 cm)
Accession Number 1974.11
Classificationspainting
Collections
Iowa Connected Artists in the collections
Mesa
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Factory
Florence Henri
ca. 1924-1925
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
"A Panic That Can Still Come Upon Me": Salvages II
Jess (Burgess Collins)
1963-1972
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
The Sentinel of the Mesa
Birger Sandzén
1933
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Blue Mesa, Arizona
Michael A. Smith
1978
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Gay Passage
Lyonel Feininger
1951
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Two Female Models Sitting and Lying on a Navajo Rug
Philip Pearlstein
1972
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Jasper Johns, Tennyson, 1958
Richard Pettibone
1965
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Horizontals and Verticals
Karl Mattern
1936
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Little Girl with Basket of Flowers
Anonymous
ca. 1840
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Soldiers and Sailors Monument
Grant Wood
ca. 1925
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Thompson Home in Union Park
Grant Wood
1926
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Dunn Funeral Home Patio
Grant Wood
ca. 1926