Margaret Hittle

Artist Details

• First Name Margaret
• Middle Name Alice
• Maiden Name Hittle
• Alternate Name(s) Margaret Chapin
• Surname Hittle
• Spouse’s Full Name

  Myron Butman Chapin (Saint Johns, Michigan June 12, 1887-1958 Ann Arbor, Michigan); son of Charles Eynard (1848-1922) and Helen Mary Adams (1853-1928) Chapin; 5 siblings

  married July 9, 1921

  artist, met at SAIC; graduated SAIC 1910; Ph.B. from University of Chicago

  illustrator for engraving house in Chicago 1911-1912; taught 6 years at Engineering School at Michigan State College of Agriculture and Applied Science

  served 2 years in France during WWI; upon his return to the United States, he was Director of the Lansing Academy of Fine Art until he came to the University of Michigan in 1924 as Instructor in the College of Architecture; retired May/June 1957

• Previous Spouse(s) n/a
• Names and Birth Years of Children Miriam Helen (1923-2015) Barbara (born 1927); her son: Jonathan “Jon” Rand
• Birth Date April 19, 1886
• Birth Place Victor, Iowa
• Death Date September 25, 1976
• Death Place Ann Arbor, Michigan
• Residence(s) 1910: 4733 Magnolia Ave., Chicago, Illinois
  
  1912-1914: 4747 Magnolia Ave., Chicago, Illinois
  
  Ann Arbor, Michigan
  
  1940: 1027 Forset
• Active In Chicago, Illinois
  
  Ann Arbor, Michigan
• Categories Etcher, Illustrator, Muralist, Painter-Oil, Sculptor
• Training School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  spring 1938: College of Architecture, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
  
• Subject(s) of Art Array
• Exhibitions History May 10-June 8, 1910: Twenty-Second Annual Exhibition of Water-Colors, Pastels and Miniatures by American Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: “Mary, Mary, Millinery”
  
  April 2-28, 1912: Nineteenth [really 18th] Annual Exhibition of the Work of Art Students League of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: Winifred at the Piano; Sunrise Study; The Departure of the Mayflower
  
  May 7-June 5, 1912: Twenty-Fourth Annual Exhibition of Water-Colors, Pastels and Miniatures by American Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: Merry Merry Millinery, etching; A Fan Fancy
  
  March 25-April 27, 1913: Twenty-Fifth Annual Exhibition of Water-Colors, Pastels and Miniatures by American Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: Kate’s Garden, monotype [lent by Mrs. F.C. Peyraud]; Ride of the Valkyries
  
  May 7-June 7, 1914: Twenty-Sixth Annual Exhibition of Water-Colors, Pastels and Miniatures by American Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: The Loggia; Man with a Bouquet; The Still Waters; A Noël; In the Park; A Thought About Evening; all monotypes
  
  1915: Panama-Pacific Exposition, San Francisco, California
  
  February 1-March 4, 1917: Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: Band Stand in the Court of the Universe; The Tower of Jewels from a Garden; The Exposition from a Hill; In the Court of Abundance
  
  1922: Exhibition of Work by the Alumni of the Art Institute of Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: Picnic on the Beach
  
  1926: Painting by faculty members of College of Architecture, University of Michigan, Hackley Art Gallery, Muskegon, Michigan
  
  ?-October 25, 1929: 17^th Annual Exhibition of the Ann Arbor Art Association, Alumni Memorial Hall\
  
  January 1935: Detroit area
  
  October 1952: St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, Ann Arbor, Michigan
  
  February 1963: 11^th Annual Exhibition of the Ann arbor Women Painters, Rackham Gallery, Ann Arbor, Michigan: a portrait
• Collections Mr. and Mrs. Frank Peyraud, Chicago, Illinois
• Publications Gray, Mary Lackritz, A Guide to Chicago’s Murals. Chicago: University of Chicago, Press, 2001. lesson plan for Steel Mill mural
• Archive(s) Edith Emerson Papers,  Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C.
• Other Occupation(s) taught Grace Hemingway, artist living in Oak Park, Illinois
  
  1929-1940: Teacher, fine arts, University of Michigan. University High School ?; retired end of 1955-1956 school year
  
  for at least 10 years taught art to Senior Citizens' Guild, Lurie Terrace, Ann Arbor, Michigan
• Biography Parents: Henry “Harry” Clay (1862-1901) and Marian “Minnie” Aitken Lewis (1861-1918) Hittle