Eve Drewelowe (1899–1988) was an American painter, especially renowned in her native Iowa and Colorado, but also widely exhibited nationally.

Her long career produced more than 1,000 works of art in oil, watercolor, pen and ink and other media in styles that included impressionism, social realism and abstraction.

Drewelowe is regarded as a feminist; throughout her long marriage, she retained her maiden-name, and designed her home without a dining-room.

Working closely with her father figure and mentor Carl Seashore, she encouraged the university to establish a graduate program in the arts.

[4] Despite warnings from Cumming that marriage could be fatal to her career, Eve married a fellow University of Iowa graduate and political scientist Jacob Van Ek in 1923.

[5] She taught part-time at the University of Colorado, Boulder in 1927–1928 and in the Department of Fine Arts in 1936–1937 for two summer sessions.

[8] She felt that humans polluted the allure of the earth, both literally and figuratively by dulling its vivid beauty.

In 1940, Drewelowe became gravely ill. She underwent surgery at Mayo Clinic in New York for the removal of a gastric polyp.

[8] Everything about her art became more assertive and bold.Despite dabbling with other artistic styles, Drewelowe always showed an inclination toward landscapes.

Her personal life exhibited feminist themes: the artist retained her maiden name and publicly stated a disinterest in housework and parenting.

When Drewelowe and Van Ek returned from their travels and started building a house together, Eve herself constructed much of the furniture and sewed decorations for the home.

[9] She did not want to be involved in the pleasantries of being the dean's wife, especially hosting dinner parties, so she specified to have the house built lacking a dining room.

[4] In fact, her Daily Camera file in Boulder, Colorado contains a note from Drewelowe stating that “she intends to come back and haunt anyone who refers to her as Mrs. Van Ek in her obituary.”[9] Although Drewelowe is mainly renowned in Colorado and Iowa, she had solo exhibitions all over the country.

[10] Although women had been in the profession of art for 20–30 years at the beginning of Drewelowe's career, she still faced opposition and sexism.

The Eve Drewelowe Gallery in the University of Iowa's Studio Arts Building is named for her.