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Margaret A. Hittle (1886-1976) Steel Mill, 1909 oil on canvas Collection of Lane Tech High School 5 feet x 20 feet
Artist Details
- Margaret
- Alice
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- Margaret Chapin
- Hittle
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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, 1921artist, 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
- n/a
- Miriam Helen (1923-2015) Barbara (born 1927); her son: Jonathan “Jon” Rand
- April 19, 1886
- Victor, Iowa
- September 25, 1976
- Ann Arbor, Michigan
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1910: 4733 Magnolia Ave., Chicago, Illinois
1912-1914: 4747 Magnolia Ave., Chicago, Illinois
Ann Arbor, Michigan
1940: 1027 Forset -
Chicago, Illinois
Ann Arbor, Michigan - Etcher, Illustrator, Muralist, Painter-Oil, Sculptor
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School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
spring 1938: College of Architecture, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
- Array
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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: 17th 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: 11th Annual Exhibition of the Ann arbor Women Painters, Rackham Gallery, Ann Arbor, Michigan: a portrait - Mr. and Mrs. Frank Peyraud, Chicago, Illinois
- Gray, Mary Lackritz, A Guide to Chicago’s Murals. Chicago: University of Chicago, Press, 2001. lesson plan for Steel Mill mural
- Edith Emerson Papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C.
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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 - Parents: Henry “Harry” Clay (1862-1901) and Marian “Minnie” Aitken Lewis (1861-1918) Hittle