Olive Brack "View of San Antonio from a Distance"
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- Olive Brack
- (1890-1957)
- San Antonio, TX
- Image Size: 14 x 20
- Frame Size: 22 x 28
- Medium: Oil
- Dated 1912
- "View of San Antonio from a Distance"
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Biography
Olive Brack (1890-1957)
Born in San Antonio, Texas on Nov. 8, 1890, Olive Brack taught briefly at a private girls school in her native city and also did some painting there. Her father was Asa Allen Brack, a San Antonio photographer.
However, her painting career appears to have lasted for only five years (1908-1913). While in southern California in 1913, she did several oils of Laguna Beach. After her marriage to Judge D. F. Strickland, she settled on a ranch in Mission, TX and remained until her death in 1957 in a hospital in Mission. She was buried in a cemetery in that town.1890-1957. San Antonio, Mission, Painter, Teacher.
A daughter of early San Antonio photographer Asa Allen Brack, Olive was born in the city. She taught art in San Antonio at a private girls' school and painted in and around San Antonio and in Southern California (1908 - 1913). Following her marriage in 1913, she lived in Mission. She died in a Mission hospital and was buried in the town.
