Lois Ireland Zwettler, artist whose paintings captured Wisconsin, dies of COVID at 92 March 1, 2021 6:32pm Text size Copy shortlink:
Her paintings had a sense of authenticity, art critics said, capturing the farmlands and lives of people with an empathy that comes from being one of them, and an appreciation of color and an eye for detail that seemed almost intuitive.
Lois Ireland Zwettler was largely self-taught and painted her corner of the world central Wisconsin beginning in the late 1940s. Her work drew the attention of one of the nation s most celebrated American scene painters, John Steuart Curry, who was the artist-in-residence at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
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