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Mary Linnea Vaughan

“Prairie Song,” an acrylic painting by Mary Linnea Vaughan, is the central image chosen for promotional materials for the One Book One State Nebraska Reads My Ántonia project to be completed in the spring of 2005. The painting was inspired by the countryside around Red Cloud, Nebraska, in the summer of 2004. This is the same countryside that inspired Willa Cather to write my My Ántonia.

“Prairie Song” was one of several paintings completed in an artist-in-residence project sponsored by the Willa Cather Foundation and the Nebraska Arts Council. Mary Linnea Vaughan, a native Nebraskan, now lives in Santa Rosa, California, where she works as a professional artist. Mary is a landscape painter and is interested in the earth and organic forms. She has an MFA from Maine College of Art and an MA from Rhode Island School of Design. She has painted extensively Ireland, France, and various parts of the United States and has had wide experience as an art teacher.

     Mary is an ardent Cather fan. She has attended all of the International Seminars sponsored by the Cather Foundation. While working as an artist-in-residence at Red Cloud in the summer of 2004, Mary read Cather works continuously and used Cather’s works as inspiration for her paintings.

Those attending the 2005 Spring Festival in Red Cloud, Nebraska, April 29-30, can look forward to an exhibition of Mary’s paintings from her recent prairie experience here in Nebraska. The paintings will hang in the Gallery of the Cather Center during the month of May.

For more information about the artist, visit www.maryvaughan.com.

“Prairie Song” By Mary Linnea Vaughan
Acrylic on Board, 12” x 16” © August 2004
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