A Bronze bust of Gov. Warren P. Knowles and his wife, being presented to the couple at a luncheon Sunday as gifts from a Bayside furniture designer, are described by the donor as a gift in gratitude for the Republican executive's encouragement of Wisconsin business activity. John W. Boughton, who commissioned German-born sculptor, Wolfram Freidrich Niessen, for the works, said the gifts to the Knowles reflect thanks from those "who have felt the impact of what they have done for people in a creative field of business." Broughton, president of Willowbrook Corp. of Thiensville, said gratitude is due Mrs. Knowles for her encouragement of what he called "artistic efforts in Wisconsin". Niessen is an assistant art professor at Northern Michigan University. He began work on the busts in August. He also was on the art faculty of Stout State University in Menomonie for two years until last spring. His work of the governor is of patina-ed bronze, and that of Mrs. Knowles is of polished bronze.
Eau Claire Leader, 12 Jan 1968
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