Lucy Perkins

Artist Details

• First Name Lucy
• Middle Name Adeline
• Maiden Name Fitch
• Surname Perkins
• Spouse’s Full Name Dwight Heald Perkins; architect; married August 18, 1891
• Previous Spouse(s) n/a
• Names and Birth Years of Children Eleanor Ellis Perkins (1893-?) Dwight Bradford Perkins; architect (1908-200?)
• Birth Date July 12, 1865
• Birth Place Maples, Indiana
• Death Date March 18, 1937
• Death Place Evanston, Illinois
• Residence(s) 1891-1904: Chicago, Illinois
  
  1904-?: 1229 Judson Ave., Evanston, Illinois
  
  ?-1937: 2319 Lincoln St., Evanston, Illinois
• Active In Evanston, Illinois
• Categories Illustrator, Muralist, Painter-Oil
• Training 1883: graduated Kalamazoo High School, Kalamazoo, Michigan
  1883-1886: Museum School of Fine Arts School, Boston, Massachusetts
  
• Exhibitions History Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  
  1904: Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, Missouri
  
  January 28-February 28, 1904: Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; decorative panel: Ivanhoe; four watercolor illustrations for The Star Fairies and Other Fairy Tales by Edith Ogden Harrison; two watercolor illustrations for Coquo and the King’s Children by Cornelia Baker
  
  January 29-February 24, 1907: Exhibition of Works by Chicago Artists, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: “Then Garlands They Brought Her”, illustration; “Robin Hood He Led About”, illustration; “Godspeed!  Godspeed! said Robin Hood, illustration; “They Fought with Maight and Main”, illustration
  
  1908: Exhibition of Works by Chicago Artists, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: Robin Hood ballads (4), illustrations
  
  1990s: Evanston Historical Society, Evanston, Illinois
• Publications Perkins, Eleanor, Ellis. Eve Among the Puritans: A Biography of Lucy Fitch Perkins, 1956. Todd, Pamela: “Lucy Fitch Perkins,” in Schultz, Rima Lunin and Adel Hast, eds.  Women Building Chicago, 1790-1990: A Biographical Dictionary, Bloomington, IN: University Press, 2001.
• Memberships Chicago Woman’s Club, Chicago, Illinois
  
  League of Women Voters, Evanston, Illinois
  
  Midland Authors Club
  
  Zonta International
• Archive(s) Evanston History Center, Evanston, Illinois
• Other Occupation(s) circa 1886-1887: illustrations for education materials for Louis Prang Educational Company,
  
  1887-1891: Art teacher, Pratt Institute, New York, New York
  
  1893-?: Prang Educational Company, Chicago, Illinois
  
  Illustrator, children's books
  
  at age 47 took up writing children’s books; most famous were her 26 or 28 “Twins” series documenting life around the world in the past
  
  circa 1912: Artist, Louis Prang & Co.
  
  social reformer
• Website(s) page on Evanston Women’s History Project website