Winfield Digital Collections

Winfield, Kansas

Sue Jean Covacevich Boys KS Arts Commission

Title

Sue Jean Covacevich Boys KS Arts Commission

Subject

Covacevich, Sue Jean

Programs

Description

Sue Jean Covacevich's short biography and work of art in the KS Arts Commission Program

Source

Winfield Public Library

Publisher

Winfield Public Library, Winfield, Kansas USA

Date

ca 1988

Format

text/plain

Language

English

Type

Programs



Citation
“Sue Jean Covacevich Boys KS Arts Commission,” Winfield Digital Collections, accessed December 22, 2024, https://winfield.digitalsckls.info/item/102.
Text

SUE JEAN COVACEVICH BOYS
Russian Sunflowers
Oil on canvas, 1988
Sue Jean Covacevich Boys was born in Wellington, and attended Bethany College, where she studied with Birger Sandzen. She also holds art degrees from Southwestern College in Winfield, where she resides, and Colorado State University.
Always a great traveler, she spent 12 years living in Mexico, where Diego Rivera influenced her greatly.
Back in Kansas, she taught primary, secondary and college-level art for 43 years. She established the Art Department at Southwestern College in 1945, and she was active in the organization of the Winfield Art Center in 1952. The art therapy classes which she established at the Winfield State Hospital and Training Center were among the first in the state. In 1988 she was awarded an honorary doctor of arts degree from Southwestern College.
Her work encompasses a vast array of media, including a historical mural of Cowley County located in the First National Bank building in Winfield, Kansas.
Through her art, she has been stirred to express a love of Kansas landscape in both gently realistic and boldly expressionistic styles, heightening the impact of her surroundings by means of vivid color and expressive line.
THE KANSAS GOVERNOR'S ARTISTS EXHIBIT

Original Format

paper