Rowena Fry

Artist Details

• First Name Rowena
• Surname Fry
• Birth Date October 22, 1892
• Birth Place Athens, Alabama
• Death Date November 2, 1990
• Death Place Nashville, Kentucky
• Active In Chicago, Illinois
• Studio Location(s) 1940: 218 E Huron, Chicago, Illinois
• Categories Graphic Artist, Illustrator, Muralist, Painter-Oil, Printmaker
• Training Watkins Institute, Nashville, Tennessee
  School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  Hubert Ropp School of Art, Chicago, Illinois
  
• Subject(s) of Art Array
• Exhibitions History February 9-March 21, 1928: Thirty-Second Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: The Yellow Bowl
  
  January 29-March 1, 1931: Thirty-Fifth Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois:  Thelma
  
  January 12-February 12, 1933: Thirty-Seventh Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: Florence
  
  February 1-March 18, 1934: Thirty-Eighth Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois:  Still Life
  
  1934: International Water Color Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1934: Room of Chicago Art: watercolors by Rowena Fry and Ethel Spears, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  January 31-March 10, 1935: Thirty-Ninth Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois:  Still Life, oil
  
  October 24-December 8, 1935: American Paintings and Sculpture, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: Reclining Figure
  
  Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago,
  
  Chicago, Illinois 1938-44 (7 times)
  
  January 27-March 5, 1944: Forty-Eighth Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: Still Life with Coffee Mill
  
  1944: Room of Chicago Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  Chicago Society of Artists Exhibitions
  
  University Club of Chicago
  
  March 28-May 12, 1946: Fiftieth Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: Winter Day, oil
  
  June 17-August 15, 1948: Fifty-Second Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: Morning Light, tempera
  
  February 10-March 20, 1949: Fifty-Third Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: Morning Knight, tempera
  
  1983: After the Great Crash: New Deal Art in Illinois, Illinois State Museum, Springfield, Illinois
  
  1993-94: New Woman in Chicago, 1910-45: Paintings from Illinois Collections, Rockford College, Rockford, Illinois and Illinois State Museum, Springfield, Illinois
  
  2011: Skirting Convention: Illinois Women Artists 1840 to 1940, Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences, Peoria, Illinois: Great Lakes Art Class, oil on canvas
• Collections Illinois State Museum, Springfield, Illinois
  
  Abbott Laboratories
  
  Clifford Law Offices, Chicago, Illinois
  
  Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, Illinois
• Other Occupation(s) 1938-39: WPA Fine Art Project painter
  
  1942-46: Taught art classes to soldiers at Great Lakes Naval Station
  
  Taught art classes in her studio
• Biography identified herself as an "American Naive"
  
  she wanted her art to be uplifting for the viewer