"The Picture Show, presenting Nebraska artists in the permanent collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska."

[Gladys Marie Lux] "Painting is a means of recording something that you have thought about or that you are trying to express. And it's also a release sometimes."
[NARRATOR] "Gladys Marie Lux, an artist and a teacher. Born and raised in Nebraska, she never was tempted to go to any other place for she found enough poetry and beauty around her to last a lifetime. Her paintings are full of love for the landscape and the people of Nebraska."
[Gladys Marie Lux] "It's... it's just home. It's the area that I know and... I appreciate the people. And the farm people are... to me the farmer is the biggest gambler there is. But at the same time he has a faith that things will turn out all right... that they would have a crop this year or next, and that they'd always have something.And as a child I never realized that I was poor. To me it was always, we had something going on, something exciting, there were always the arrival of the little babies. But those were always exciting things for a child on the farm.
"[NARRATOR] "In the 1930's when life was hard on the plains Gladys Lux portrayed the optimism of the struggling farmer."
[Gladys Marie Lux] "That was back in the Depression. I was trying to say that there would be a new time, so I call it Dawn of the New Day. And as I put in the sunrise and the two men talking, that's what they're talking about. That there will be a new day or a better time.
"[NARRATOR] "And how does she know when a painting is finished?"
[Gladys Marie Lux] "It may not be finished. You still can work on it. There's no particular final stroke."