Research Guides: Historic Knight Library: Art & Architecture: Kneeling Female Figure

KNEELING FEMALE FIGURE

Artist: Nellie G. Best. Medium: Carved stone. Location: Knight Library Browsing Room.

Kneeling Female Figure.
Source: UO Libraries Special Collections & University Archives, University Archives Photographs, 1890s-2010s, UA Ref 3 Box IE 5, Folder 7.

Kneeling Female Figure. Location: Browsing Room fireplace.
Photo: Ed Teague.

Identification of Nellie Best as the artist of the kneeling female figure was made possible by the digitization of a series of School of Architecture and Allied Arts classroom photographs for Oregon Digital in which Best is identified as the artist of this untitled work.

FLOOR PLANS & ART GUIDE

Historic Knight Library Art Guide Provides floor plans with locations of art described in this guide. Some locations are not publicly accessible at all times. Check library hours.

SOURCES

Blackstock, Joe, "How the Murals at the Ontario Post Office Got There," Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, December 12, 2016. http://www.dailybulletin.com/arts-and-entertainment/20161212/how-the-murals-at-the-ontario-post-office-got-there

"Former Students Display Art Work." Oregon Daily Emerald, May 1, 1936. Mary Kirkwood, Nell Best at Little Gallery.

"White Bear Lake, MN New Deal Art," wpamurals.com.

Who's Who in Northwest Art. Edited by Marion Brymner Appleton. Seattle: Frank McCaffrey, 1941.