Frances Badger

Artist Details

• First Name Frances
• Middle Name Stewart
• Maiden Name Badger
• Alternate Name(s) Frances C. S. Badger
• Surname Badger
• Spouse’s Full Name Paul Schofield (married 1940)
• Names and Birth Years of Children 1 son
• Birth Date August 22, 1904
• Birth Place Kenilworth, Illinois
• Death Date November 3, 1997
• Death Place Northbrook, Illinois
• Ethnicity Caucasian
• Residence(s) Chicago, Illinois
  
  Kenilworth, Illinois
  
   
• Studio Location(s) Fine Arts Building (financed at least originally by Pauline Dohn Rudolph upon returning from European tour with Matilda Vanderpoel)
• Categories Illustrator, Muralist, Painter-Oil
• Training Junior School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Winnetka, Illinois; student of Pauline Dohn Rudolph
  Roycemore School, Evanston, Illinois
  School of the Art Institute of Chicago (graduated 1925); student of Matilda Vanderpoel
  John Warner Norton
  
• Relevant Travel 6 month trip to Europe with Matilda Vanderpoel following her graduation from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
• Subject(s) of Art Array
• Exhibitions History 1933:  Mural, Hall of Science, Century of Progress Exposition, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1933-1937, 1939:  Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1934, 1936:  International Water Color Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1935:  Delphic Studios Exhibition, New York, New York
  
  1936:  New Jersey State Museum Exhibition, Trenton, New Jersey
  
  1938:  Chicago Artists Exhibit, Club Women's Bureau, Mandel Brothers, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1939:  Riverside Museum Exhibition, New York , New York
  
  1939: Paul Theobald Galleries, Chicago, Illinois
  
  May 1941: [exhibit announced in 5/18 Chicago Tribune]
  
  1962:  Artist Members Exhibition, Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1983:  After the Great Crash: New Deal Art in Illinois, Illinois State Museum, Springfield, Illinois
  
  1993-1994:  New Woman in Chicago, 1910-45: Paintings from Illinois Collections, Rockford College and Illinois State Museum
  
  Arts Club of Chicago
  
  Chicago Public Library Art Room (solo)
  
  Chicago Woman's Aid Society (solo)
  
  Chicago Woman's Club (solo)
  
  Cordon Club, Chicago (solo)
  
  Evanston (IL) Public Library (solo)
  
  International Etching Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago
  
  Monroe Gallery, Chicago (solo)
  
  Print Club of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  
  Roycemore School, Evanston, IL (solo)
  
  Union League Club of Chicago
  
  University Club of Chicago (solo)
  
   
• Collections Bohemia Club Grove, San Francisco, Illinois
  
  Mr. & Mrs. David A. Bridewell, Winnetka, Illinois
  
  City of Chicago
  
  Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan Laing, Evanston, Illinois
  
  John Meyer, Chicago, Illinois
  
  Mr. & Mrs. John Ross, Chicago, Illinois
  
   
• Memberships Arts Club of Chicago
  
  Chicago Society of Artists (president 1942)
• Other Occupation(s) 1925-1929, 1938-1948:  Teacher, Roycemore School, Evanston, Illinois
  
  1928:  book illustrator, Baby Animals Mother Nature series
  
  1935-1939: worked for mural program of Federal Art Program/WPA
  
  gallery director, Old Town Triangle Art Association, Chicago, Illinois
  
  teacher, Old Town School of Art, Chicago
• Website(s) http://www.chicagomodern.org/artists/frances_badger/
  
  Article by C.J. Bulliet