Sherwood Barton Anderson
married July 1916 at Chateauguay, New York; they kept separate apartments
separated 1922, divorced April 24, 1924 in Reno, Nevada on grounds of unjustifiable desertion, which she did not context
1909-1910: affair with Edgar Lee Masters
that relationship influenced his plays Eileen and The Locket; he referred to her in several poems, including "Ballade of Ultimate Shame: TM Augsut 20, 1909- May 23,1911"
April 18, 1874
Jackson, Michigan
December 20, 1929
Chicago, Illinois
Division St., Chicago, Illinois
153 E. Erie St., Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Sculptor
self-taught, starting at age 46 when she joined her husband at Fairhope, Alabama to rest and she discovered colorful clays in the area
1921: traveled to Europe with husband Sherwood Anderson as guest of Paul Rosenfeld
figures
portrait busts
1924: gallery in Woodstock, New York
1926: Madison Art Association, Madison, Wisconsin
1927: Whitney Studio Club, New York, New York
1929: Exhibition of Ten Artists, "The Ten," Marshall Field Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Anderson, Sherwood. The Triumph of the Egg. 1921 -- includes photographs of 7 of her figures modeled in clay, three of which represent characters in the stories.
Molden, Charles E. "Tennessee Claflin Mitchell Anderson," in Women Building Chicago,
Spears, Timothy B., Chicago Dreaming: Midwesterners and the City, 1871-1919, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2005.
Chicago Arts Club, Chicago, Illinois
Chicago No-Jury Society of Artists, Chicago, Illinois
Romany Club, Chicago, Illinois
The Ten, Chicago, Illinois
piano teacher
piano tuner
teacher, eurythmic dance
Parents: Jay P. and Martha ("Mattie") C. Stockham Mitchell; her father was a postal clerk.
siblings: 1) Louisa Marian Mitchell Wright (August 31, 1879, Jackson, Michigan - June 17, 1959, Phoenix, Arizona); married Joseph Francis Deck
2) Amber Mitchell (July 26, 1890, Jackson, Michigan - December 17, 1902, Chicago, Illinois; died of meningitis).
She moved to Chicago after her father died and her mother remarried, taking her sister with her.
Tennessee Mitchell Anderson seems to be the model from Faulkner's heroine, Charlotte Rittenmeyer.
The Tennessee Mitchell Anderson papers are in the Anenberg Rare Book & Manuscript Library at the University of Pennsylvania.
She started an autobiography
Anderson was cremated December 31, 1929 and her ashes scattered around a chapel in Graceland Cemetery on January 9, 1930; her ex-husband was in town but decided against attending the ceremony.