“Escape to Nowhere” Canvas Painting Midwest Regional Artist Virginia Terpening

Who Was Virginia Shoup Terpening?. Her work even graced the walls of galleries in Nottingham, England and Parma, Italy. See our other Virginia Terpening paintings. Virginia Shoup was born in 1917. Her father Floyd Shoup was a state representative in Missouri from Lewistown and her mother Bertha Shoup was a local historian who wrote about the earliest years of the community.