Louise Emerson Ronnebeck was an American painter now best known for her work as a muralist. She submitted entries to 16 competitions for the Section of Painting and Sculpture, winning and completing two commissions. Although her body of work included a significant number of both commissioned frescoes as well as easel paintings, few are known to have survived.
The Fertile Land Remembers, 1938, mural by Louise Emerson Ronnebeck
The Harvest, 1941, mural by Louise Emerson Ronnebeck
Arnold Rönnebeck was a German-born American modernist artist and museum administrator. He was a vital member of both the European and American avant-garde movements of the early twentieth century before settling in Denver, Colorado. Rönnebeck was a sculptor and painter, but is best known for his lithographs that featured a range of subjects including New York cityscapes, New Mexico and Colorado landscapes and Native American dances.
Arnold Rönnebeck working on Grief model, 1926, Omaha, Nebraska, unidentified photographer. Arnold Rönnebeck and Louise Emerson Rönnebeck papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Fireplace in La Fonda Hotel, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1929
Hodges Memorial, Fairmount Cemetery, Denver 1929