Published In:
Ann Arbor News, March 22, 1948
Caption:
Ernest August Siefert, self-taught artist of the primitivist school, points out to a detail in one of his brightly colored water color paintings. The picture is of St. Paul's Church, Aurora, Ill. The Ann Arbor resident, who is a masseur by trade, lives and works at 513 E. William St. He and another artist from Detroit are believed to be the only two known primitive painters in Michigan.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, November 18, 1973
Caption:
From Our Pictorial Archives: Ann Arbor 1948: It was cool and the leaves had begun to fall when The News took this picture in late October 25 years ago in the Arboretum. Three members of the Ann Arbor Art Association were busy trying to record an early fall scene with pencil or brush. From left, they were E. A. Seifert, Mrs. Minnie Douglas (who was 82) and Mrs. Margaret Haines.