Monday, Oct. 1, 1962
University Daily Kansan
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Exhibit Features Local Painter
A PART TIME PAINTER—Mrs. M. N. Penny, 639 Tennessee, is a KU graduate who loves to paint. Some of her work is presently on display in the Kansas Union.
Vienna, Rome, Paris or the wheat fields and dust storms of western Kansas. Each has been captured on canvas by the paint brush of Mrs. M. N. Penny of 639 Tenn.
These scenes and many more are in her exhibit on display in the Browsing and Music Room of the Kansas Union building.
As a child, she was captivated by the "story in picture." Encouraged by her art supervisor in grade school, she followed her love of art through high school courses and on into college. She graduated from KU's School of Fine Arts and taught school before her marriage to M. N. Penny.
AFTER STUDYING painting with a class in Colorado and painting in Edinburgh, Scotland, while at a church convention, Mrs. Penny, next went on an art tour of twelve European countries. She painted under the instruction of Henry Gasser while on the tour. The paintings done on the tour captured some highlights of the countries and in this way she brought home many "memory pictures."
Painting fast, but concentrating and working hard, gives her a feeling of satisfaction. Part of this is the feeling of seeing things one never noticed before.
Quill Club Will Elect Officers
ment to care for next door and twenty-one grandchildren keeps me busy" And on the 25th of last month, she started on her way to a church convention in California!
Mrs. Penny says she didn't touch a paint brush while raising her family until her youngest child was in kindergarten, but laughingly recalls her husband accusing her of putting crayons in her children's hands as soon as each could hold one. Gradually crowding painting in between household chores, she once again began her painting interest.
The Quill Club, a creative writing society sponsored by the English department, will elect officers at 8 p.m. today in room 306 at Memorial Union. All students interested in creative writing are invited to the meeting.
One wonders if perhaps now she has the time to spend her days at her easel. Smiling and shaking her head, she says, "Only when I can work it in. My church work, having my home to care for, a 12 unit apart-
SHE KEEPS a sketch book while on trips, making notes of the scenes she passes, and uses them later in painting.
Mrs. Penny sells many of her paintings. They are in grade schools and junior high schools in Lawrence. Her paintings have also been sold to individuals over the United States. She has donated paintings sold in a youth project for use in a fund to help furnish the new educational building of the First Christian Church.
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