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ELIZABETH FAULKNER NOLAN
ROUTE 2, WAUKESHA
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AS HER father's favorite "hired man," she knew that
zX  she was not cut out to be a conventional farm girl.
Small of stature and feminine to the core, she neverthe-
less preferred stacking the oats and feeding the cows
to housework. Even today, as the young mother of
two children with plenty of home chores, she still takes
delight in a large garden, an orchard, a flock of chick-
ens, the farm animals, and always the fields and hills
beyond.
  Born and raised on a farm in eastern Wisconsin, she
has a feeling for the free movement of growing things.
This she has learned to express in art, whether in oil
painting, water color, sculpture, or ceramics. Reflect-
ing this mood is "Spring Frontispiece," the pastel which
Curry considered her best work; in this, onions, pota-
toes, and roots, sprouting in a dark cellar, lift their pale
green forms upward towards the dim light of a narrow
cellar window.
  Generations of farm people may be partly responsi-
ble for her relationship to the land and her growing
desire to portray it in color. Great-grandfather Faulk-
ner, of Scotch-Irish lineage, was born on a farm in
New York. His farmstead, "Rose Hill," was drawn by
a relative, Grace Tyrrell, at one time an instructor at
the Chicago Art Institute. Maternal grandfather Rus-
sell was also a farmer and often amused himself by
the drawing of pictures. Elizabeth Faulkner's father im-
pressed her as a child with his collection of Old-World
castles drawn during long winter evenings when he had
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