UNIVERSITY ACQUIRES PAINTING

Lawrence Salemme of New York has donated a watercolor painting titled "The Hour on the Square" to the Southeast Missouri State University Museum.

The gouache on paper is the work of his mother, New York painter Lucia Autorino Salemme. The piece is valued at $20,000.

Her work has been included in as many as a dozen annual exhibitions of American art at the Whitney Museum and is represented in collections around the country.

As an educator, she has held positions with the Works Progress Administration, the Art Students' League, the Museum of Modern Art and New York University. In the 1940s, Salemme won two Guggenheim Fellowships to study at the School of Non-Objective Painting, later to become the Guggenheim Museum in New York.

She has authored three widely used textbooks on painting.

The University Museum hosted an exhibition of Salemme's work in 1998.