Comment on Time Machine: Mildred Pelzer, a student of Grant Wood

Mildred Lenore Weenink, who would become a well-known Iowa artist and arts advocate, was 2 years old in 1891 when her parents moved from Wisconsin to Dillon, Mont., where her father, H.D. Weenink, opened a photography studio.One of four children, she graduated from Beverhead County High School and the Montana State Normal School in Billings, a school for training teachers, where she taught briefly before enrolling at the Pratt Art Institute in New York City.