The artwork is “The ‘Hot Peanut’” by Lola Mueller, an award-winning painter and...
Artist Henry Lee McFee is welcomed at a tea in his honor in 1939, when he joined the faculty of the Witte Museum Art School that held classes in Brackenridge Park’s Mill Race Studio.I recently purchased this etching , “The ‘Hot Peanut,’” at a local thrift shop. I was intrigued not only by the subject matter, early Brooklyn Street, but even more so by the note on the back. Lola Mueller was a respected San Antonio artist known mainly for her watercolors. Ed H.
The typewritten note on the back is dated “San Antonio, Texas/June 15, 1942.” Headed “Mr. and Mrs. Ed H. Herpel,” the message continues as follows: According to a story in the San Antonio Light, Dec. 10, 1939, he had operated this small business for six years at the corner of Brooklyn Avenue and Augusta Street. On his way there, the elderly entrepreneur had immigrated from Denmark, worked on the Panama Canal and was elected mayor of Revere, Minn., before moving to San Antonio to found a tool factory. Below his “red express wagon” is a small oil stove Rasmussen built to keep his wares warm.
Manny Mueller went on to open his own Alamo Plaza clothing store, and the couple had two children. At midlife, Lola Mueller took adult art classes at the Witte, probably soon after they began in 1933.
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