Author: Elizabeth Wolfe
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Keywords: wolfe, nungester, mildred
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 2005-10-20
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 1578068096
ISBN-13: 9781578068098

Mildred Nungester Wolfe (b. 1912) is among Mississippi’s most prominent artists. Her portrait of Eudora Welty hangs in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., and her paintings and sculptures are included in the collections of the Mississippi Museum of Art, Millsaps College, Montgomery Museum of Art, the Library of Congress, and in several private collections. From the wrought-iron gates of Methodist Children’s Home, to the terra cotta statue of St. Anthony for St. Dominic’s Hospital (both in Jackson, Mississippi), to the mosaic plaque for the water fountain in the town of Ric