Increase Robinson (1885-1981)
Brick Yards on the Hudson
Increase Robinson (1885-1981)
Fishing on the North Beach Jetty
Artist Details
Increase
Reichman
Josephine Dorothea Reichman (birth name)
Mrs. E. Kendall Davis
Robinson
Kendall Davis (Iowa City, Iowa 1909-April 1987) received a business administration degree in 1929 and a law degree in 1932 from the University of Iowa; Illinois state director of the Federal Theater Project in the late 1930s (when they met); served in the Navy during WWII; after 1946, Sacramento Municipal Utility District General Manager
Baron Philip Increase Robinson (?-1920s); from Calumet, Michigan; married circa 1913
Philip Robinson
Esther Robinson
April 2, 1885
Chicago, Illinois
October 16, 1981
Sacramento, California
7136 Crandon Ave., Hyde Park, Illinois
circa 1943 Corpus Christi, Texas
1946: Sacramento, California
Chicago, Illinois
Sacramento, California
Muralist, Painter
: graduated 1909: Hyde Park High School, Hyde Park, Illinois
Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts
University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Woodstock, New York
student of John Norton, Ernest Thurn, Hans Hofman
University of California
Array
1926: The Art Club: First Annual Student Art Exhibition, The Renaissance Society, Chicago, Illinois
1927-1935: Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (6 times)
1930, 1932: International Water Color Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
1932: Annual Exhibition of Oil Paintings & Sculpture by American Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
1933, 1934: A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings & Sculpture, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Chicago Woman’s Aid Club, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois [solo]
Cordon Club, Chicago, Illinois [solo]
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California
Illinois Academy of Fine Arts, Chicago, Illinois
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Northern California Art Association
Kingsley Club, Sacramento, California
Sacramento Art Association League, Sacramento, California
Tuesday Club, Sacramento, California
Nikolitch, Patricia A. “Robinson, Increase” in Women Building Chicago 1790-1990: A Biographical Directory, University of Indiana Press, 2001.
Chicago Arts Club, Chicago, Illinois
Chicago Society of Arts, Chicago, Illinois
Teacher
?-1933: Owner of Diana Court Art Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1934: Regional Director of PWAP Region Ten
1934 - Regional Director of PWAP Region Ten
1934 - 1935 - Advisor to the Illinois Treasury Relief Art Project (TRAP)
1935 - Director of the Art Department, Work and Rehabilitation Division, Illinois Emergency Relief Commission (IERC)
August 1935 - Project Technician, Planning and Formation of the Illinois Art Project
1935 - Region Director of the Illinois Federal Art Project
October 7, 1935-March 1, 1938 - Illinois State Director of the Federal Art Project
1933-1938: State Director of the Federal Art Project in Illinois
1938-1939: assistant to Holger Cahill, national director of Federal Art Project
arts administrator
operated an art gallery in Sacramento, Califorinia