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Susitna, Anchorage, Alaska, 1949 Agnes Gough was born June 4, 1902 in Marshall County, Kentucky daughter of John Jenkins and Iona (Wallace) Gough. Raised in the rural community of Benton where her father was a veterinarian and minister, Agnes graduated from high school in 1921 and attended Western Kentucky State Normal School in Bowling Green. While teaching art and other subjects in the Ludington, Michigan public schools, Gough earned an A.B. degree from Western during the summers between 1925 and 1935. Agnes taught briefly in Oak Ridge, Tennessee in the mid-1940s. While there she and fellow artists took excursions to the Great Smoky Mountains to sketch and paint. In the summer of 1946 she studied at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center with Peppino Mangravite and Edgar Britton. In 1948 Gough took a teaching position in Anchorage, Alaska. The woodcut on exhibit was executed during this period and given to Mary Moore, librarian at the Kentucky Building in Bowling Green, as a Christmas present. Gough completed her teaching career in Ludington moving home to Benton upon retirement. Agnes Gough died on February 21, 1988. |
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