IOWA WOMEN’S ARCHIVES

UNIVERSITY OF IOWA LIBRARIES

IOWA CITY, IOWA

 

 

 

              TITLE:»NELLIE M. GEBERS (1901-1995)

 

 

SUBTITLE:»»PAPERS, DATES:»1991-1995

»QUANTITY:»1 linear inch

 

 

 

ACQUISITION:

The »papers (donor no. 268) were donated by »Jeanne Bellefeuille in 1995.

ACCESS:

The »papers are open for research.

»»COPYRIGHT:

»Copyright to portions of the collection has been transferred to the University of Iowa.  Copyright to "They Called Her Ned" has been retained by the editor, Don Gebers:  researchers may quote from it but anyone wishing to publish the entire manuscript must receive permission from Don Gebers.

»PROCESSED BY:

Your name, year»Randel W. Lackore, 1996.

REVISION:

Kären M. Mason, October 5, 1999, Word 7.0 gebers.doc

»Biography

            Begin text here:»Nellie M. Castor Gebers, artist, writer and teacher, was born on October 26, 1901 in Ira, Iowa.  Gebers was a student of Grant Wood's and was said to have suggested the idea for Wood's 1934 painting, Dinner for Threshers.  In 1959 Gebers and her family moved to California.  While in Iowa and California, Gebers taught painting in the public schools, in community adult education classes and in her own studio.  She painted and taught all during her adult life until failing eyesight and health caused her to retire.  Gebers died in Mountain View, California, in 1995.

 

 

 

Scope and Content Note

 

            Begin text here:The» Nellie M. Gebers papers date from »1991 to 1995 and measure »1 linear inch.  The »papers »are organized in five folders.

 

            The bulk of the collection is an autobiography originally written in longhand by Gebers towards the end of her life and typed and edited by her son Don Gebers.  The rest of the collection consists of an essay about old age and living in a nursing home, correspondence with the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum in San Francisco about Grant Wood and an instructional guide on Gebers’ process for the encaustic painting method.

 

 

 

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»Autobiography, "They Called Her Ned," edited by Don Gebers, 1994

Correspondence with M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, 1991

"My Method for Encaustic" [re: encaustic painting] by Nellie Gebers, undated

Essay on life in a nursing home, by Nellie Gebers [1994]

Obituary, 1995