You are correct.
She was a profession in the University of Colorado Boulder art department to
Who joined the Boulder faculty in the 1920's.
She traveled the "ghost towns" of Colorado and documented what was once called "The Rocky Mountain Appalachia" in the 1920's and 1930's - long before the ski boom and when people used to move to Denver for their health and TB treatment.
My father was a professor at the CU medical school in Denver (1965 - 2001) and would travel to the Boulder campus on occasion for facility meetings and would usually come home to Denver with one or two of her drawings. She would attend facility meetings and sell her drawing and paintings outside in the hallway. They were usually $45 each. I have about a dozen of them hanging in our home - several of which were published in her books.
Guests to our home often comment on why I have drawings of run down mines and ghost towns hanging in our dining room and living room. When they hear the story they understand, or at least say they do.
Her work is pretty scarce now and tends to fetch thousands of dollars each. Occasionally, when I was a student in Boulder in the late 1970's they would turn up at garage sales for a song and a smile.
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On Oct 16, 2017, at 7:42 PM, Keith Hayes [via C&Sng Discussion Forum] <
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Ever wonder who Muriel Sibell Wolle was?
She was on the CU arts faculty prior to 1970 (the art building was named after her when I was at school there in the 80s). She was inspired (as we are) by the mining towns west of Boulder and made it her mission to photograph the remains after World War II. A compilation of these images, along with sketches, is the book, "Stampede to Timberline."
Evidently there is now a short documentary on Muriel and her colleagues:
https://vimeo.com/216581020
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