Elizabeth Nedved

Artist Details

• First Name Elizabeth
• Maiden Name Kimball
• Surname Nedved
• Spouse’s Full Name Rudolph James Nedved (Bohemia 1895-1971); immigrated to Chicago as a child with his family; graduated Crane High School; worked as draftsman for Western Electric Company; graduated from Armour Institute in 1921; taught architecture design at Armour Institute; architect; her business partner from 1926 in Nedved & Kimball architects married September 1923 in City Temple Church, London, England
• Previous Spouse(s) n/a
• Names and Birth Years of Children Kimball (October 1928-?) son daughter
• Birth Date October 26, 1897
• Birth Place Chicago, Illinois
• Death Date 1969
• Residence(s) Winnetka
  
  Glencoe (Glasner House by Frank Lloyd Wright)
  
  1937-before 1950: VIrginia
• Active In Chicago, Illinois
• Studio Location(s) Marquette Building, Chicago, Illinois
• Categories Architect, Watercolorist
• Training graduated New Trier High School, Winnetka, Illinois
  1916-1918: Church School of Art, Chicago, Illinois; specialized in interior decorating
  Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois (one year)
  1921-1925: University of Illinois; studied architecture
  Armour Institute, Chicago, Illinois
  
• Exhibitions History February 3-March 8, 1927: Thirty-First Annual Exhibition of Works by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: A Tuscan Farmhouse, watercolor; Praha, watercolor; The Fish Market of Chartres, watercolor
  
  1927: Second Annual Woman’s World’s Fair, Coliseum, Chicago, Illinois; model nursery and kitchen [with Juliette Peddle and Catherine Heller]
• Publications "This Woman Has Both a Career and a Husband: She and He Forge to the Front of Architects," Chicago Daily Tribune, May 6, 1928
• Memberships American Institute of Architects (purportedly the first woman member)
  
  Women’s Architectural Club of Chicago (founded 1927); 1931: President; 1932: Vice President
• Other Occupation(s) : interior decorator, Marshall Field & Co., Chicago, Illinois
  
  draftsman, Tallmadge & Watson architects, Chicago, Illinois (while a student at Northwestern University)
  
  taught watercolor painting, Chicago Architectural Sketch Club
  
  during World War II: marine engineer for US Nay, Bureau of Ships
• Website(s) article on Julie Bachrach's blog
• Biography parents: Ernest and Jessie Kimball; father owned Kimball’s (a cafeteria, perhaps the first one in the country)
  
  had at least one younger sibling
  
  received architectural license 1928
  
  late 1928, formed partnership with architects John Hamilton and William Fellows