Agnes Gale

Artist Details

• First Name Agnes
• Middle Name Spafford
• Maiden Name Cook
• Alternate Name(s) Agnes Spafford Cook
• Surname Gale
• Spouse’s Full Name Henry Gordon Gale (1874-1942; physicist; married 1901)
• Names and Birth Years of Children Beatrice (1904-?) published poems and narratives for children
• Birth Date June 7, 1872
• Birth Place Normal, Illinois
• Death Date November 8, 1957
• Death Place Chicago, Illinois
• Residence(s) DeKalb, Illinois
  
  Normal, Illinois
  
  5844 Stony Island Ave., Chicago, Illinois
• Active In Chicago, Illinois
• Categories Painter-Acrylic, Sculptor
• Training Wellesley College (1 year)
  University of Chicago
  
• Exhibitions History 1924, 1926, 1928, 1932, 1952:  Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago
  
  1926: The Art Club: First Annual Student Art Exhibition, Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1946: Pictures Up to $20, Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1949-1958 : Artist Members Exhibition, Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1955:  Agnes Gale, Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
• Publications
  Bassett, K.W. The icicle, circa 1919  (Agnes Spofford Cook; lyricist)
  Achilles & Hector, 1903 (Agnes Cook Gale)
  Chicago Daily Tribune, Nov. 10, 1957; p. 59 (Agnes C. Gale; d. Nov. 8, 1957, Chicago, Ill.; artist and sculptor)
• Memberships Artists Equity Association
  
  Chicago Society of Artists
  
  Renaissance Society of the University of Chicago; president
• Awards 1924: Chicago Woman's Aid award ($50), Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
• Biography Daughter of John Williston (first president of Illinois State Normal University) and Lydia F. Spofford Cook.  Her mother (born 1846) was the daughter of Farnham and Lydia Spofford of North Andover, Massachusetts.  Her brother was John L. Cook.
  
  University of Chicago has papers of her husband and some correspondence and personal material of Agnes.
  
  She published books, including Achilles and Hector, A Children's Odyssey  (1912)
  
  Buried in Oak Woods Cemetery, Chicago, Illinois
  
  Henry Gale (1874-1942; married 1901; appointed to the Department of Physics at the University of Chicago in 1899 upon receipt of his doctorate there; he served the University in various capacities until his retirement in 1940, including Dean of the University’s division of physical sciences)