Marietta Fournier (1884-by 1930)
The Fox and the Crane
Marietta Fournier (1884-by 1930)
block print
Artist Details
Marietta
Jickling
Mary Fournier
Fournier
Lawrence A Fournier (Walkerton/Bruce, Ontario June 23, 1878-November 19, 1944 Illinois); parents Andrew (1845-1894) and Amelia Clendening (1848-1943) Fournier; 5 siblings: James, Lucy Belle, Harold, Elizabeth, William
they married November 12, 1906 in Carman, Manitoba, Canada
he was an architect with Emslie and Purcell
drafted 1942
buried in Mount Hope Cemetery, Chicago, Illinois
n/a
1884
Canada
by 1930
1907: immigrated to Minneapolis, Minnesota from Canada
1913-1915: Minneapolis School of Art, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Saugatuck Summer School
1915 and 1916: Minneapolis Institute of Arts
1916 State Fair: 2nd annual exhibition of local artists and craft workers: a wooded path in deep shadows
1917: St. Paul Institute
May 15-June 15, 1919: Art Students’ League of Chicago 26th Annual Exhibition, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
January 29-March 3, 1920: Twenty-Fourth Annual Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, The Art institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
April 6-May 5, 1920: Exhibition of Work by Members of the Summer School at Saugatuck, Michigan, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Illinois: Landscape, Saugatuck
John Ruskin Club, Minneapolis, Minnesota
1917: First Vice President, Alumni Association of the Minneapolis School of Art
1914: Minnesota State Art Society
1914: Minneapolis School of Art: Concours Prize for 2nd year student in Design; First Prize in Theory of Color Class
1915: Minneapolis School of Art: Honorable Mention for Third Year Student, wood block prints
1919: third prize, Annual Exhibition of the Art Students’ League of Chicago
Mrs. Fournier was an ardent socialist and attracted a small coterie of freethinking artists, social workers, and various dissenters into her home once a week for "discussion and argumentation." -- Minnesota Historical Society website
1910: chairman of woman’s committee in Hennepin, Minnesota