Source: Rockford Morning Star, Feb. 8, 1943, Feb. 16, 1943, Rockfordiana Files of Rockford Public Library.
Rockford Art Association
Viola Barloga – 1944, photo
Viola Hodgson Barloga, comes from a British family
artist, homemaker, interior decorator
Her painting “Boat Racing on the Rock River” in 48th annual Chicago and vicinity artists show, opens at Art Institute of Chicago Thursday
She studied at Art Institute when she was a girl.
Soprano, plays piano for own pleasure
Painting “Still Life on Piano” won Barloga the Rockford Art Association’s 1943 Purchase Award, now hangs in Burpee Gallery
Barloga home is at 1220 National Ave.
Source: Rockford Morning Star 1/23/1944
Discovery Center Museum – Holiday 2016 issue of NWQ
Source: Northwest Quarterly Magazine, Holiday 2016 issue
Burpee Art Museum – 1941
Source: Rockford Streamlined, by Rockford Chamber of Commerce, 1941, page 62
Frank I. Johnson Dies; Rockford Portrait Artist – 1952
Source: Rockford Morning Star Sept. 6. 1952
“Flying Red Harrows” painting – artist Franklin Boggs
Source: Graphic, a magazine for Rockford, March 1953
Gail Gaylord – 1967
Riverfront Museum Park
See also: Main Street North 813
See also: Discovery Center, Burpee Museum, Rockford Art Association
Dr. Alan Brown, Burpee Museum of Natural History Executive Director
Sarah Wolf, Discovery Center Museum Executive Director
Burpee and Discovery Center Expansions “Tourism, Jobs and Something Wondrous”
…when a 5,000 sq ft Smithsonian-quality hall for traveling exhibits opens…
5,000 sq ft Woodward Exhibition Hall will be completed this Summer
The two science museums although managed separately will share hall
In 2008 more than 144,000 visitors came to Discovery Center
In 2008 more than 90,000 visitors came to Burpee
Source: Northwest Quarterly magazine Spring 2010
Atwood, Patricia L. – 1967
1303 Harlem Boulevard
1303 Harlem Boulevard
Residence of John R. Salter and wife, Josephine Salter
Director, Rockford Art Association
Source: 1937 Rockford City Directory
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