Pauline Dohn (Rudoph) (1865-1934)
Spinning Yarns, circa 1891
reproduction from catalog
Pauline Dohn (Rudolph) (1865-1934)
Pear Time, 1895
oil on canvas
Collection of M. Christine Schwartz
28 x 19.75 inches
Pauline Dohn (Rudolph) (1865-1934)
A Portrait, circa 1895
reproduction in catalog
Pauline Dohn (Rudoph) (1865-1934)
The Seeker: "I Sent My Soul Through the Invisible", 1897
oil on canvas
Collection of M. Christine Schwartz
48 x 36 inches
Pauline Dohn (Rudoph) (1865-1934)
A Village Belle, 1899
oil on canvas
Collection of M. Christine Schwartz
29 x 20 inches
Pauline Dohn (Rudoph_ (1865-1934)
A Picture Book, 1901
oil on canvas
Pauline Dohn (Rudoph) (1865-1934)
Interstate Exposition Building, circa 1915
oil on canvas
Pauline Dohn (Rudoph) (1865-1934)
Preparing the Fete OR The Japanese Lantern, circa 1900
oil on canvas
Collection of Winnetka Historical Society
Pauline Dohn (Rudolph) (1865-1934)
What the Stork Brought, 1896
Artist Details
Pauline
Amalie
Dohn
Lena
Pauline Dohn Rudolph
Dohn
Franklin Rudolph (Chicago, Illinois August 8, 1858-December 27, 1922 Chicago, Illinois); businessman
married October 5, 1901
Franklin Dohn Rudolph (1903-1964)
Pauline Dohn Rudolph (1905-1975)
Charles D. Rudolph (1908-1949)
July 8, 1865
Chicago, Illinois
June 19, 1934
Los Angeles, California
1883-1885: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1885-1887: Europe
circa 1895: 165/7 Locust Street, Chicago, Illinois
1907-1933: 745 Sheridan Road, Winnetka, Illinois
1933: California
Chicago, Illinois
1892: 82 Athenaeum Building, Chicago, Illinois
1897-1900: 9 Studio Tree Building, N. State St., Chicago, Illinois
1901: LaSalle Ave., Chicago, Illinois
Painter-Oil, Pastelist, Watercolorist
1882: graduated Chicago Academy of Design (School of the Art Institute of Chicago), Chicago, Illinois
1882-?: Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia; Student of Thomas Eakins,
1894: Paris, Académie Colarossi, Academie Julian, student of Gustave Clarence Radolphe Boulanger, Gustave Courtois, Lefebvre
summer 1895: The Netherlands, student of Melchoir who lives in Detroit but is “now abroad”
In 1887, "Lena" accompanied her friend Anna Huntington Stanley and her mother to Venice and then on to Paris, where the girls enrolled in the Académie Julian. Renting a space on the top floor of the Hotel Oxford and Cambridge, Lena's accommodation was connected to an adjoining room occupied by Anna.
Array
April 3-10, 1883: Bohemian Art Club First Annual Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: Blowing Bubbles, oil; Robin and Bluejay, oil; The Little Emigrant, oil; Little Italian, oil; The Morning Toilet, oil; Old Man, watercolor; Study, watercolor; Marguerite, watercolor; Sketch, watercolor; Sketch Head, watercolor; The Little Orphan, watercolor
1888: Paris Salon de la Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
April 24-May 10, 1891: Eighth Annual Exhibition, Palette Club, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: A Letter from the Fatherland, oil; A Subject for the Home Missionary, oil; Sketches, oil; Portrait, oil; A Young Member of the Farmers’ Alliance, oil; Sweet Peas, oil; Study Head, oil; The River, oil; An American Girl, oil; Still Life, oil; Study Head, oil; A Jolly Little Prisoner, oil; An Old-Fashioned Girl, pastel; Miss B.R., pastel; An April Day, watercolor; A Busy Maiden, watercolor; Summer, watercolor; Winter Sunset, watercolor; Solitaire, charcoal; Red Chalk Drawing, charcoal
1891-1901: Chicago Academy of Art, Chicago, Illinois
1892: National Academy of Design, New York, New York
1892: Ninth Annual Exhibition of the Palette Club, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Spinning Yarns, watercolor
1893: World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Illinois: What the Stork Brought [in Fine Arts Palace]; Portrait of Mrs. M.W. Means [in Rotunda of Women’s Building]; frieze in Reception Room of Illinois State Building
October 29-December 17, 1894: Seventh Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture by American Artists, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Pielje’s Dinner
January 24, 1895: United Annual Exhibition of the Palette Club & the Cosmopolitan Art Club, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: Pietje’s Dinner, oil; Preparing for St. Nicholas, watercolor
1895: Society of Western Artists' Third Annual Exhibition, Chicago, Illinois: Pear Time, oil on canvas
May 21-June 10, 1895: Seventh Annual Exhibition of Chicago Society of Artists, : Portrait [of her sister]
October 22-December 8, 1895: Eighth Annual Exhibition of Oil Paintings and Sculptures by American Artists, the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: Pear Time; Studying Her Catechism; A Poppy Field; The Mill – all oil
December 12-29, 1895: Fourteenth Annual Exhibition of the Palette Club, the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Portrait; Pear Time; Studying Her Catechism; A Poppy Field; A Grey Day; Harvest; The Little Mill--Sunset
May 1-October 31, 1897: Tennessee Centennial and International Exposition, Nashville, Tennessee: What the Stork Brought
November 2-December 12, 1897: Tenth Annual Exhibition of Oil Paintings and Sculpture by American Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: “When Peaches Ripen in the Sun”, oil
February 1-27, 1898: Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: Ste. Jeanne de Chantal, pastel
1898: Trans-Mississippi & International Exposition, Omaha, Nebraska: 2 works?
1898 or 1899: Salons de Refuse, Palette and Chisel Club, Athenaeum Building, Chicago, Illinois: The Seeker: I Sent My Soul through the Invisible [see p. 45, Art in Chicago: A History from the Fire to Now]
February 28-March 19. 1899: Third Annual Exhibition of The Society of Western Artists, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: Pear Time, oil; Caught, oil ; The Blossoming Reed, watercolor
February 28-March 19. 1899: Exhibit of Works by Chicago Artists, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: Portrait; The Seeker, “I Sent My Soul Through the Invisible”; In Wonderland; A Village Belle; Portrait Sketch; Feeding Her Pets
February 22-March 11, 1900: Fourth Annual Exhibition of th4 Society of Western Artists, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: A Village Belle, oil
February 28-March 16. 1900: An Exhibition of Works by Chicago Artists, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: Tiger Lily
March 28-April 15, 1900: First Annual Exhibition of the Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts, Public Library, Minneapolis, Minnesota: An Interesting Story
January 14-February 23, 1901: 70th Annual Exhibition of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: A Village Belle, oil on canvas
January 31-February 24, 1901: An Exhibition of Works by Chicago Artists, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: Preparing the Fête, oil
February 28-March 13, 1901: Fifth Annual Exhibition of the Society of Western Artists, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: The Seeker, “I Sent My Soul Through the Invisible
March 1901: Fifth Annual Exhibition of the Society of Western Artists, Lieber Art Gallery, Indianapolis Art Association
June 11-25, 1901 OR June 10-25, 1902 OR June 16-30, 1903: Fifth OR Sixth OR SeventhAnnual Exhibitionof the Richmond Art Association, Richmond, Indiana: In Wonderland
December 6-26, 1906: Eleventh Annual Exhibition of the Society of Western Artists, the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Cincinnati (OH) Spring Exhibition
June 20-October 18, 2009: Making It in the Midwest: Artists Who Chose to Stay, Indiana State Museum, Indianapolis, Indiana: Pear Time, oil on canvas;
October 1, 2011-January 15, 2012: Skirting Convention: Illinois Women Artists, 1840-1940, Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences, Peoria, Illinois: Pear Time, oil on canvas; A Village Belle, oil on canvas
Christine Schwartz Collection
Winnetka Historical Society, Winnetka, Illinois
Chicago Society of Artists, Chicago, Illinois
Cosmopolitan Club, Chicago, Illinois
Palette Club, Chicago, founder; president 1892-93
The Society of Western Artists, Chicago Chapter
1901: Art Association of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
1895 Yerkes (1st) Prize, Seventh Annual Exhibition of Chicago Society of Artist’s for portrait of her sister
1897: WEW Club: What the Stork Brought, circa 1896, oil on canvas
Teacher, Chicago Academy of Fine Arts and Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
students include Anna Kellogg
at least through 1899, worked as a graphic designer on posters
biography on website for M. Christine Schwartz Collection
Parents: Adolf/Adoph W. (1835-1901) and Pauline King Johnston (1831-1901) Dohn. Adolf, who immigrated to Chicago from Germany in 1853, was the first conductor of the Apollo Musical Club in Chicago and an organist for the Fourth Presbyterian Church. grew up at 165 Locust St., Chicago, Illinois
Sibling: Mary A. Dohn (1869-?)
Graduated high school at age 13 or 15.
Involved with inauguration in 1897 of the Art Institute of Chicago's annual Chicago artists’ exhibition (later the “Chicago and Vicinity” show).