The Redstone Print by Sister Tresa Klein

This piece features the Redstone Inn in Dubuque, Iowa.

Signed print of an original painting by the late Sister Tresa Klein of Dubuque, Iowa.

Print measures 13” x 8.5” with a white border for framing.

Tresa’s interest in art began during the long winters on the family farm in western Iowa when she and her siblings were snowbound. On August 25, 1944, Tresa entered Mount St. Francis in Dubuque as many of her relatives did, and joined her very own sister, Sister Mary Oda. 

From 1971 to 1974, Sister Tresa received her art training at Briar Cliff College.  In 1974 Sister moved to Mount St. Francis as the artist in residence, and in 2007 moved to Holy Family Hall.

For 24 years Sister captured and recorded the beauty of wildflowers, Victorian homes, fences, roadsides, and children picking daisies.  Nature themes became her passion. Sister Tresa’s heart was in the woodland.  “It’s the simple things that I love to paint,” she said. 

“I earnestly hope that as we look to America’s future, we can preserve our unspoiled forests, fields, and wetlands.  The flowered countryside and bowers are a priceless legacy.  We must find ways of conserving them for the benefit of coming generations.”

Find more of Sr. Tresa's work here.