Mary Peterson

Artist Details

• First Name Mary
• Middle Name C
• Maiden Name Peterson
• Surname Peterson
• Spouse’s Full Name n/a
• Names and Birth Years of Children n/a
• Birth Date May 15, 1886
• Death Date April 24, 1967
• Ethnicity Swedish
• Residence(s) 1910: Corley St., Chicago, Illinois
  
  1929: 4449 N. Albany Ave., Chicago, Illinois
• Active In Chicago, Illinois
• Categories Painter
• Training 1926-?: Stockholm Art Academy, Stockholm, Sweden; student of Edward Berggren
  School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; student of Mr. and Mrs. Oberteuffer
  
• Subject(s) of Art Array
• Exhibitions History 1929: The Chicago Exhibition of Scandinavian-American Artists, Chicago, Illinois; Full Bloom; Misty Morning
  
  February 1-March 18, 1934: Thirty-Eighth Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Composition with Figure
  
  late 1930s-early 1940s: Chicago WPA Art Gallery, Erie Street, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1930: The Forty-Fourth Annual Exhibition of Works by American Painters and Sculptors, the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  November 10-19, 1930: Illinois Women’s Athletic Club, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1931: The Forty-Fifth Annual Exhibition of Works by American Painters and Sculptors, the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Realization
  
  March 11-April 1, 1941: The Forty-fifth Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; De Fondeau and Her Mother
  
  1942: The Arts Club, Chicago, Illinois; Brown Madonna
  
  May 1942: Mandel Brothers, Chicago, Illinois; group of Mexican landscapes
  
  1947: Swedish Artists, Chicago, Illinois; Ingeborg’s Garden
  
  ?-March 6, 1949: Illinois Club for Catholic Women (820 N. Michigan), Chicago, Illinois [solo]
  
  Illinois Academy of Fine Arts
  
  Swedish-American Art Association
• Collections Swedish American Museum Center, Chicago, Illinois
• Memberships Svenska Konstnärer
• Awards first prize, exhibit of Swedish artists, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1947: third prize: Swedish Artists, Chicago, Illinois; Ingeborg’s Garden
• Other Occupation(s) fashion and commercial artist
  
  vocalist – member of the Northland Trio circa 1930 with Rose Pearson-Burgeson and Signe Mortenson; the trio toured Sweden in 1926
• Website(s) excerpts from newspaper accounts
• Biography painting was a hobby for her “for several years”
  
  one on AskArt website prepared by Geoffrey K. Fleming, Executive Director, Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, West Virginia