Pauline Dohn

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  • 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 Seventh Annual Exhibition of 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

     

     

    1. 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 Winnetka Historical Society website

    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).