Posted: 07.05.2011

A southeastern Wisconsin museum is hosting an exhibition about famed wildlife artist Owen Gromme.

``Owen Gromme: The 115th Birthday Exhibition'' will be at the Waukesha County Museum in Waukesha starting Tuesday. It will feature more than 30 works and numerous personal items
owned by his family that haven't been publicly exhibited before. The exhibit is being guest curated by his son Roy and daughter Ann Marie. The collection will not be exhibited again after the exhibit ends in October.

Gromme was a prolific painter of Midwestern birds and worked for the Milwaukee Public Museum for 40 years. He also designed the 1945 Federal Duck Stamp.

He was born in Fond du Lac in 1896 and died in 1991.

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