Louise Fluke was born in Van Buren, Arkansas

Van Buren, Arkansas

Van Buren is the second largest city in the Fort Smith, Arkansas-Oklahoma Metropolitan Statistical Area and the county seat of Crawford County, Arkansas, United States. The city is located directly northeast of Fort Smith at the Interstate 40 - Interstate 540 junction...

, and moved to Shawnee, Oklahoma

Shawnee, Oklahoma

Shawnee is a city in Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 29,857 at the 2010 census. The city is part of the Oklahoma City-Shawnee Combined Statistical Area; it is also the county seat of Pottawatomie County and the principal city of the Shawnee Micropolitan Statistical...

 with her family a year later. As a young girl she received art lessons. As she became older, she continued her art lessons at Columbia University

Columbia University

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 and the Chicago Art Institute. On December 1924 she married George Fluke and had one son.

In 1925 she entered and won a contest to design the Flag of Oklahoma

Flag of Oklahoma

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 sponsored by the Daughters of the American Revolution

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Sources

• Louise Fluke