Eva Russell

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  • Eva
  • Webster
  • Mrs. Frances Lord Russell Eva Webster
  • Russell
  • Frances Lord Russell
  • September 9, 1856
  • Chicago, Illinois
  • Chicago, Illinois
  • Painter-Oil, Watercolorist
  • Academy of Design, Chicago, Illinois on scholarship for painting and drawing
    Student of John Vanderpoel
    Student of Martha Baker
  • Array
  • 1883: Annual Exhibition, Bohemian Art Club, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

    1891: Annual Exhibition of Oil Paintings & Sculpture by American Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

    1891, 1895: Annual Exhibition, Palette Club, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

    National Academy of Design, NYC

    1893: World's Columbian Exposition, Woman's Department, Chicago, Illinois

    1896:

    1897: city-wide event
  • Armstrong-Ingram, R. Jackson. “Eva W. Russell,” Written in Light: ‘Abdu’l-Baha and the American Baha’i Community, 1898-1921. Kalimat Press, 1998.
  • Palette Club, Chicago, Illinois; 1892-1893, secretary

    Bohemian Club, Chicago, Illinois
  • 1874: co-assistant principal, Wells School of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

    1875: Division and Cleaver Street School, Chicago, Illinois

    1876: Carroll Avenue School, Chicago, Illinois

    1881; Cleaver Street School, Chicago, Illinois

    1885: performed in plays in Janesville, Wisconsin and in Chicago, Illinois

    1905: William McKinley High School, Chicago, Illinois

    Art Teacher

    Student of John Vanderpoel and Martha Susan Baker, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  • Parents:  John and Octavia Greene Webster; father originally from New Hampshire and mother originally from Rhode Island; father a doctor

    Siblings:  four older ones, including Mary (circa 1840-?) and Arthur (circa 1849-?)