Louise Yochim

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  • Louise
  • Dunn
  • birth name: Liuba Dichne
  • Yochim
  • Maurice Yochim (April 17, 1908-July 30, 1986); artist (painting, lithography, sculpture) 1940: working as school teacher at Kelvyn Park High School (Wrightwood and Kostner streets) He studied at and later exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago, and also exhibited at the Chicago Non-Juried Society of Artists. assistant professor at Chicago Teachers College and art director for the Jewish Board of Education, director of Fisher Hall Todros-Geller Art Galleries, and finally professor of art at Northeastern Illinois University.
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  • Jerome (Chicago, Illinois February 23, 1933-?) attended Sullivan High School possibly attended University of Illinois, lived in Noble House became a doctor possibly later 2565 Arkansas St., Lawrence, Kansas, 66046-4533
  • May 18, 1909
  • Olevsk, Zhitomir, Ukraine
  • July 17, 2003
  • Skokie, Illinois
  • Jewish, Ukranian
  • Olevsk, Ukraine

    1924-2003: Chicago, Illinois

    1930 census: 1553 Ridgeway Ave., Chicago, Illinois; 5 other families living there

    1933-1940: renting 1353 Greenleaf, Chicago, Illinois, apparently 5 other families living there

    1958: Skokie, Illinois

    1993: 9545 Drake Ave., Evanston, Illinois
  • Chicago, Illinois
  • Block Printer, Casein, Lithographer, Mixed Media, Painter-Oil, Printmaker, Watercolorist
  • European Gymnasium
    Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
    MA from University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
    1962: Ph.D. from University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  • Midwest United States

    Mexico
  • Array
  • possibly June 11-July 7, 1929: Annual Exhibition of Student Work, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; 3 designs

    June 12-July 13, 1930: Annual Exhibition of Student Work, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Composition, pencil

    January 31-March 10, 1935: Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: Roof Tops

    January 30-March 1, 1936: Fortieth Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: The Responsibility

    March 12-April 26, 1942: Forty-Sixth Annual Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, The Art Institute of Chicago; “What God Hath Joined, Let No Man Put Asunder

    1945: Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, Michigan

    1947, 1951, 1963 Todros Geller Gallery, Chicago, Illinois [solo]

    1951: Riverside Museum, New York, New York

    1953: Chicago Society of Artists, Chicago, Illinois

    1953: Associated Artists Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

    1955: Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Illinois

    May 25-August 31, 1956: Artist Members Exhibition, Renaissance Society, Chicago, Illinois

    February 12-26, 1957: 1957 Chicago Artists No-Jury Exhibition, Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois; Autumn, Lake Place; Emerging Patterns, Chicago, 1956

    June 4-August 31, 1957: Artist Members Exhibition, Renaissance Society of Art, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

    1958: Illinois State Museum, Springfield, Illinois

    May 26-August 29, 1958: Artist Members Exhibition, Renaissance Society, Chicago, Illinois

    1958: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio

    1958: Butler Institute of American Art, Cleveland, Ohio

    1958: Library of Congress, Washington, DC

    June 8-August 28, 1959: Artist Members Exhibition, Renaissance Society, Chicago, Illinois

    1960: First Federal Gallery, Chicago, Illinois [solo]

    1965: Union League Club of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

    1966-1970, 1972-1973, 1975-1977: University Club of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

    1974: University Club of Chicago, Illinois [solo]

    American-Jewish At League

    Detroit
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  • Jacobsen's Biographical Index of American Artists. Artists native to the United States or working in the United States from 1606 to 2002. Four volumes. Edited by Anita Jacobsen. Carrollton, TX: A.J. Publications, 2002. Who's Who in World Jewry. A biographical dictionary of outstanding Jews. Edited by I.J. Carmin Karpman. New York: Pitman Publishing Corp., 1972. (WhoWorJ 1972) Who's Who in World Jewry. A biographical dictionary of outstanding Jews. Edited by I.J. Carmin Karpman. Tel-Aviv, Israel: Olive Books of Israel, 1978. (WhoWorJ 1978)\ “Louise D. Yochim devotes a lifetime to art,” Highland Park Newspaper, August 6, 1998, p. B4
  • American Jewish Art Club; founding member 1926, originally called “Around the Palette”

    Chicago Society of Artists, Chicago, Illinois (president 1973-1979)
  • 1932: Woman's Aid Scholarship, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

    1948: Todros Geller Award for painting,

    1955: L M Stein Award for painting,

    1955: Nathan Schwartz Award,

    1958: Emily Bernstein Award; possibly Untitled, circa 1960, oil on board, 40 x 30”

    1959: Susan Fried Award,

    1959: Honorable Mention, Old Orchard Festival Award, Skokie, Illinois

    1961: Todros Geller Award for painting,

    1970: Honorable Mention, Chicago Society of Artists exhibit, Chicago, Illinois

    1970, 1977: Spertus College of Judaica,
  • 1930-1932: Teacher, Junior School Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 1932: Teacher, Longfellow School, Oak Park, Illinois

    1932: Teacher, Longfellow School, Oak Park, Illinois

    1934-1944: Teacher, Lake View Evening High School, Lake View, Illinois

    1930-1950: Teacher, Chicago Public High Schools (Steinmetz, Wells), Chicago, Illinois

    1950-1971: Supervisor of Art, Board of Education, Chicago, Illinois1952: Teacher, Chicago Academy of Fine Arts,

    1952, 1953, 1960: Teacher, Chicago Teachers College, Chicago, Illinois

    1952, 1953: Teacher, Wright Junior College, Chicago, Illinois

    Author, "Role and Impact: The Chicago Society of Artists" 1979

    Co-editor, "The Harvest of Freedom: A Survey of Jewish American Artists 1930-1980," American References, 1989

    “Building Human Relationships Through Art,” 1967

    “The Life and Works of Artist Rubin Steinberg: A Biography,” LDY Special Publications, 1996

    “How to Understand and Appreciate Abstract and Non-Objective Works of Art” LDY Special Publications, 1999

    art consultant for Rand McNally Publications and for Encyclopedia Britannica
  • page Richard Norton Gallery, Chicago, Illinois website

    Obituary in Chicago Sun-TImes

     
  • left Libau, Latvia on December 26, 1923 aboard the Estonia, arrived in New York City on January 11, 1924 with family; 3 youngest kids hospitalized for a time at Ellis Island

    Marlene Targ Brill wrote Picture Girl (2018) in the Becoming American Kids series from Golden Alley Press based on Yochim's life: An independent, feisty girl, Luba Dichne drew constantly—after school, in storm shelters hiding from murderous Cossacks, and on the SS Estonia on her way from Ukraine to America. By the time Luba and her family finally saw the Statue of Liberty, they had suffered violence, injuries, illnesses, and a storm at sea. Safely on Ellis Island, things turned bleak once again. The immigration quota for Ukrainians had been filled while Luba’s twin siblings were recovering from measles. It looked like the family would have to return to Ukraine, where they were hated for their faith. Then a guard saw Luba’s drawing of President Woodrow Wilson, and everything changed.