Rachel Gertrude Grimm

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(1898, Sun Prairie, WI - )

Rachel Gertrude Grimm was recognized as “one of the most talented members of the rural art group”, by John Rector Barton.[1]

Grimm began drawing as a young child, copying pictures from magazines and books. Her only formal artistic training was at a summer class at the Emmanuel Missionary College at Berrien Springs, MI. There, her art teacher, Mrs. McCormick, taught students to paint what was around them, whatever was within reach. Grimm carried this lesson with her into her later years, often choosing the landscape found around her farm home in Sun Prairie as a source of subject matter.

After two years teaching, Grimm returned to the College for another summer to study art. However, she was quickly called to help her family’s struggling farm. After many years of setting her paint brushes and pencils aside, Grimm began painting with the Wisconsin Rural Art Project in the 1942.

She was associated with the Wisconsin Regional Artist Association (WRAA) / Wisconsin Rural Arts Program (WRAP).

Source: John Rector Barton, “Light Under a Bushel”, Rural Artists of Wisconsin (Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1948), 53-55.

Museum of Wisconsin Art, http://wisconsinart.org/archives/artist/rachel-gertrude-grimm/profile-1433.aspx 

Photo credit: John Rector Barton, Rural Artists of Wisconsin (Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1948), 53.