PAINTING

Description: FRAMED. PAINTING CONSISTS OF ONE RED AND ONE YELLOW ROSE IN THE FOREGROUND, WITH A COUPLE BUILDINGS IN THE BACKGROUND, AMONG SOME TREES AND OTHER GREENERY, AND SOME WATER. HAS A BLACK MATTE AROUND IT. FRAME IS CARVED WOOD; CONSISTS OF LEAVES AND PINE CONES. FRAME IS PAINTED GOLD. INSIDE EDGE OF FRAME HAS A RED, CLOTH COVERED TRIM. BACK OF FRAME HAS A WIRE FOR HANGING.

History: PAINTED BY EMMA CLASEN, MOTHER OF THE DONOR, ALBERTA KIENHOLZ NEE CLASEN. DONOR'S PARENTS WERE CHARLES AND EMMA CLASEN (NEE PFLEGER) WHO FARMED SIX MILES EAST OF CARDSTON. THEY MARRIED FEB. 25, 1911 IN CEDARBURG, WISCONSIN. EMMA TAUGHT SCHOOL AT THE PLEASANT VALLEY SCHOOL IN CEDARBURG AND MOVED TO THE FARM NEAR CARDSTON IN 1911. CHARLES HAD MOVED A SHORT WHILE EARLIER. ALBERTA JEANETTE CLASEN WAS BORN MARCH 28, 1922 IN LETHBRIDGE, AND PASSED AWAY HERE OCTOBER 22, 2000. ALBERTA MARRIED ALFRED KIENHOTZ IN 1943, WHO FARMED NEAR WOOLFROD, AND THEY HAD 3 CHILDREN - JOHN, ALICE, AND ESTHER. IN 1960 THEY SEPERATED AND SHE MOVED TO HER MOTHER'S FARM. IN 1962 ALBERTA INHERITED THE FARM FROM EMMA AND OPERATED IT UNTIL RETIRING IN 1991. THE FARM WAS THEN SOLD TO THE RALEY COLONY. CHARLES, EMMA, AND ALBERTA ARE ALL BURIED IN MOUNTAIN VIEW CEMETARY. ALBERTA HAS ONE SISTER, LILLIAN LEAVITT OF CARDSTON. *UPDATE* IN 2014 COLLECTIONS ASSISTANT JANE EDMUNDSON CONDUCTED A SURVEY OF ART OBJECTS. WHILE NO FURTHER BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS ABOUT THE ARTIST, EMMA CLASEN, WERE FOUND, LETHBRIDGE HERALD OBITUARIES FOR HER AND HER HUSBAND, CHARLES, LIST THEIR DATES OF DEATH AS FEBRUARY 9, 1962 AND AND FEBRUARY 20, 1957, RESPECTIVELY.