Born in Iowa, Elizabeth Honor Dolan, painter of murals and portraits, moved, when a small child, to Tecumseh, Nebraska. She later moved to Lincoln and attended the University of Nebraska School of Fine Arts l89l-95. She continued her education in Chicago, New York, France, and Italy. A versatile artist, she painted portraits and murals and created stained glass windows and frescos.
She returned to Nebraska in l926. Her mural, Spirit of the Prairie in the Nebraska State Capitol Library, was chosen in l93l as one of the twelve best mother and child paintings in America. Other murals she painted in Lincoln include backgrounds
for displays at the University of Nebraska State Museum (Morrill Hall) and murals at the Lincoln YMCA, Masonic Temple, University Club, Miller and Paine department store, the student union on the University of Nebraska campus, Unitarian Church, and at the Bennett Martin Public Library, Lincoln.
Dolan's work was well-known in Europe. Among these were a fresco of Leonardo de Vinci's "Head of Christ" at Fourqueux, France and a fresco in a theater in Fontainebleau, France. In l937 she had a one-artist show at Joslyn Art Gallery, Omaha, and she also participated in shows in Paris, Chicago, and New York and at the l939 World's Fair in New York.
She died in Lincoln on May 26, l948.