Eda Casteron

Artist Details

• First Name Eda
• Middle Name Wilhelmina
• Maiden Name Nemoede
• Alternate Name(s) Eda Nemoede
• Surname Casteron
• Spouse’s Full Name William J. Casterton married June 29, 1911 he died February 9, 1948 in Evanston, Illinois
• Names and Birth Years of Children Jane (1912-?) Virginia (February 1917-?)
• Birth Date 1877
• Birth Place Brillion, Wisconsin
• Death Date 1969
• Death Place California
• Ethnicity Germanic
• Residence(s) 1910: 3013 W. George St., Chicago, Illinois
  
  1939: 1132 Sherman Ave., Evanston, Illinois
  
  1952: to Missoula, Montana, lived with a sister
• Active In Chicago, Illinois
  
  Evanston, Illinois              
  
  Missoula, Montana
• Studio Location(s) Fine Arts Building, Chicago, Illinois
• Categories Miniaturist, Painter-Oil, Pastelist, Watercolorist
• Training Minnesota School of Fine Arts/Minneapolis Academy of Art
  Chicago Academy of Fine Arts; student of Virginia Reynolds and Lawton S. Parker
  School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  1905: Paris, student of Henry Salem Hubbell
   
  
• Subject(s) of Art Array
• Exhibitions History 1904: St Louis/Louisiana Purchase Exposition,
  
  1904: Annual Exhibition of Water Colors, Pastels and Miniatures by American Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1907: Paris Salon de la Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts
  
  May 7-June 16, 1907: Nineteenth Annual Exhibition of Water-Colors, Pastels and Miniatures by American Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Mr. T.M. Brooks; Mrs. N.
  
  May 11-June 13, 1909: Twenty-First Annual Exhibition of Water-Colors, Pastels and Miniatures by American Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Miss A. Guss; Sketch; The Baby
  
  May 10-June 8, 1910: Twenty-Second Annual Exhibition of Water-Colors, Pastels and Miniatures by American Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Cameron (miniature)
  
  May 9-June 7, 1911: Twenty-Third Annual Exhibition of Water-Colors, Pastels and Miniatures by American Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Eleanor; Miss Mildred Fitz-Hugh [daughter of Carter Fitz-Hugh]; Elizabeth [Kirkland]; Mrs. T. Despres; Janet (all miniatures)
  
  May 7-June 5, 1912: Twenty-Fourth Annual Exhibition of Water-Colors, Pastels and Miniatures by American Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Mrs. Ione Wheeler; Mills Willard; Miss Mabel Riegelmann
  
  March 25-April 27, 1913: Twenty-Fifth Annual Exhibition of Water Colors, Pastels and Miniatures by American Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Portrait
  
  January 28-February 21, 1913: Seventeenth Annual Exhibition of Works by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Jane Casteron (miniature)
  
  1914: Annual Exhibition, Chicago Society of Miniature Painters, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1915: Panama-Pacific Exposition, San Francisco, California; Miss Pauline Batchelder
  
  June 18-?, 1916: An Exhibition of Selected Water Colors and Miniatures by American Artists, City Art Museum; Mae Olson (miniature)
  
  February 8-March 5, 1916: Twentieth Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago Artists, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Mrs. [S.D.] K[ilpatrick]; Rosana [Kilpatrick]; Sketch of Jane all miniatures
  
  1918: Sixth Annual Exhibition by the Chicago Society of Miniature Painters, Art Institute of Chicago, 1926: Chicago, Illinois; Elizabeth Kennedy; Children of Mr. E.L. Murphy; Mrs. S.; copy of Botticelli fresco
  
  Philadelphia Sesquicentennial, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  
  1926, 1928: Annual Exhibition, American Society of Miniature Painters, William Macbeth Galleries, New York, New York
  
  1930: Twenty-Ninth Exhibition of The Milwaukee Journal’s Gallery of Wisconsin Art, Milwaukee Journal Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin;
  
  1933, 1934: A Century of Progress, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  Grand Central Art Gallery, New York, New York [solo]
  
  1934: Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C. [solo]
  
  1949-1951: League of American Pen Women Exhibitions
  
  National Academy of Design, Washington, D.C.
• Collections Brooklyn Museum of Art
  
  Smithsonian American Art Museum
  
  Vanderpoel Collection, Chicago
  
  Mrs. Carter Fitz-Hugh
  
  Mrs. D.W. Kirkland
• Publications Tsuda, Margaret. "When small is big". Christian Science Monitor. February 3, 1984
• Memberships American Society of Miniature Painters, New York, New York
  
  British Royal Society of Miniature Painters
  
  Chicago Society of Artists, Chicago, Illinois
  
  Chicago Society of Miniature Painters, Chicago, Illinois (Vice-President)
  
  Pennsylvania Societies of Miniature Painters
• Awards 1905: honorable Mention, Paris Salon
  
  1915: Silver Medal, Panama-Pacific Exposition, San Francisco, California
  
  1926: bronze Medal, Philadelphia Sesquicentennial, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  
  1949-1951: Awards, League of American Pen Women Exhibitions
• Other Occupation(s) 1895-?: stenographer, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1908-?: Teacher, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
• Biography Parents: Edward Carl Ludwig Nemoede (Germany January 20, 1838-March 6, 1895 Oconto County), a harness maker, and Maria Georgina Bastian (Germany October 25, 1837-December 8, 1914 Chicago, Illinois)
  
  surviving siblings: Bertha, 16 years her senior; Agnes; Rudolph; Anna; Hattie; Herman; and Alma Caroline