Marie Hull

[2] Her maternal grandfather, a graduate of the Tulane University School of Medicine, "made drawings of Civil War battles.

[1][3] With this prize, she covered the tuition fees of an eight-month art school in Europe with painter George Elmer Browne, during which time she "produced over six hundred oils and watercolors that reflected her travels.

"[1] Over the years, she painted "birds, nature scenes, architecture, portraits, flowers" and "abstract art.

[1] Ten years later, Governor William Waller created "Marie Hull Day" on October 22, 1975.

[1][3] A month later, in September 1975, the University Press of Mississippi had published The Art of Marie Hull, a book co-authored by Malcolm M. Norwood, Virginia McGehee Elias and William S.

[7] The museum held an exhibition, entitled Bright Fields: The Mastery of Marie Hull, from September 26, 2015, to January 10, 2016.

[2][8] Concert pianist Bruce Levingston authored Bright Fields: The Mastery of Marie Hull, published by the University Press of Mississippi in 2015.