Helge Ederstrom to Edward Adolph
Since retiring at 70 of age in 1978, I have kept active in several pursuits. I maintain a matchbox-sized office at the University of North Dakota Medical School and keep in touch with the events in the Dept. of Physiology. ...
Now that my academic duties have shrunk, I have had more time to spend on my lifelong hobby of water-color painting. Last fall I had a one man show of some 40 paintings at the University Art Gallery. The exhibit contains mostly realistic North Dakota rural scenes---abandoned farm buildings, old machinery, and my favorite subject, grain elevators. Most of the paintings were sold. Also, I have had smaller exhibits around the area.
My teaching has taken a complete turnaround, in that I now teach a course in paintings each semester at the University Art Center. Both college students and townspeople are enrolled, and it has proven quite a novel challenge to a scientist.
Courtesy “News from Senior Physiologists” “The Physiologist, Vol. 25, No. 2,1982”
I have two Ederstroms hanging in my bedroom. My mothers has the others. My step father was a professor at UND and Helge would often throw out the work he didn't like. My step father picked them up and asked if he could pay for them but Helge said to take them. Those are the ones in the collection I have. I think we have around 10 of them.
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