Olive Nuhfer

Olive Nuhfer (1901-1996) was an American painter. She is best known for her New Deal era mural, The Daily Mail, in the Westerville, Ohio Post Office.

Biography Nuhfer née Austin was born on August 16, 1901, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She married Leo R. Nuhfer on May 27, 1926 in Parkersburg, West Virginia. She attended the University of Oklahoma The mural was funded by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts (TSFA). Her 1937 portrait Electric Welder is in the Steidle Collection of American Industrial Art at Penn State College of Earth and Mineral Sciences. In 1961, Nuhfer founded the Penn Arts Association in Penn Hills, Pennsylvania.

In 1990 Nuhfer suffered a stroke, but after a three year hiatus, resumed painting with her other hand. She died on October 8, 1996, in Pittsburgh.

In 2016, her painting Pittsburgh Landscape was included in the exhibition The Gift of Art: 100 Years of Art from the Pittsburgh Public Schools' Collection at the Heinz History Center.