Annie Shaw

Artist Details

• First Name Annie
• Middle Name Cornelia
• Maiden Name Shaw
• Alternate Name(s) Annie Cornelia Shaw
• Surname Shaw
• Spouse’s Full Name n/a
• Names and Birth Years of Children n/a
• Birth Date September 16, 1852
• Birth Place Troy, New York
• Death Date August 31, 1887
• Death Place Kenwood, Illnois
• Residence(s) by 1864-?: Chicago, Illinois
• Active In Chicago, Illinois
• Studio Location(s) 1874-?: Chicago, Illinois 1881: New York, New York 1884-1885: Boston, Massachusetts
• Categories Etcher, Painter-Oil, Watercolorist
• Training 1868-?: studied at Chicago Academy of Design, student of Henry Chapman Ford
  
• Relevant Travel Adirondack Mountains
  
  Mackinac Island, Michigan
  
  coastal Maine
• Subject(s) of Art Array
• Exhibitions History 1864: Illinois State Fair, Springfield, Illinois; pencil drawing
  
  1873: Second Annual Chicago Inter-State Industrial Exposition, Chicago, Illinois; View on the Des Plaines
  
  1875: Chicago Inter-State Industrial Exposition, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1876: Philadelphia Centennial Exposition, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; An Illinois Prairie
  
  1876: Chicago Academy of Design, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1877: Inter-State Industrial Exposition, Hall of Art, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1878, 1880, 1883, 1884: National Academy of Design, New York, New York
  
  1880, 1881, 1883: Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  
  1881: Chicago Inter-State Industrial Exposition, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1882: Chicago Inter-State Industrial Exposition, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1882: exhibit of New York Etching Club, National Academy of Design, New York
  
  1883: Chicago Inter-State Industrial Exposition, Chicago, Illinois
  
  April 3-10, 1883: First Annual Exhibition, Bohemian Art Club, Art Institute, Chicago, Illinois; The Oak; The Brook; The Harvest Field; An August Afternoon; The Old Lime Kiln (study); Afternoon; Beech Woods, watercolor
  
  March 14-24, 1884: Second Annual Exhibition, Bohemian Art Club, Art Institute, Chicago, Illinois; In the Clearing, oil; Summer, oil; At Eventide, oil; The Old Beach of Bedford, oil;  Morning, oil; Under the Willows, black/white sketch
  
  February 1885: Doll and Richards’ Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
  
  February 14, 1885: Third Annual Exhibition of The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; The Road to the Creek, oil, lent by Mr. B.P. Hutchinson
  
  December 15, 1887:-? Works by Annie C Shaw, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; 241 oil paintings: Russet Year; Summer; October; In the Twilight; Early Spring at Hillside Farm; The Autumn Walk; With Nature; Bossy; Winter in the Park; Old Granary Burying Ground; Sunset on the Marshes; Willow Brook; The Going Out of Day; A Touch of Autumn; Edge of the Woods; A Gleam of Sunshine; The Oak; Afternoon; Hillside Orchard; On the Lowlands; A Corner of the Orchard; The Old Elm; A Hazy Afternoon; Study of a Cow; Drove of Sheep; In October; Changing Tints; A Tangle; In the Studio; Afternoon Shadows; Autumn Tints; A Country Road; Morning; Gray Day at Medford; Morning in the Grain Field; Brow of the Hill; Beeh Trees; In Sunny Fields; Ridge Farm; Over the Meadows the Shadows Creep; Gathering Clouds; In the Clearing (the study); Study of the Willows; Hillside at Arlington; Among the Trees; Country Scenes; Fading Light; The Peacfuness of Nature; Solitude; Meadow Stream; A Thought from Nature; A Sketch of Trees; "In the Far Blue Deeps of Air"; "I Would Build My Palace on the Clouds of Heaven; Where Lilies Grow; Medford Church; Ready for Harvest (the study); Fresh Pastures; Apple Orchard; Shadows on the Hillside; By Cooling Stream; A Shady Place; One Summer Day; The Late Harvest; At Eventide; Black Brook; Day in the Country; Old Street in Manchester; The Lime Kiln; Prairie Pastures; September; The Top of the Quarry; Old Stone Wall; By thee Sea; A Rocky Shore; The Entrance to the Woods; Woods of Cape Cod; Pride of the Campus; Gloucester Coast; Low Tide at Manchester; Rich Tints of October; The Road to the Woods; The Rest; Old Houses on the Essex Road; Early Snow; Hillside Lane; Keene Valley; Summer Time; The Sea at Manchester; Corn in Evanston; The Quiet Woods; Brown Eyes; Autumn; Harvest of the Corn; Cape Cod; In the Churchyard; Above the Tree Tops; Foggy Day at Gloucester; Autumn Idyl; Sheep on Hillside; Rainy Day; The Beginning of Harvest; Corner of My Studio (New York); "The Woods of Autumn Have Put Their Glory On;" On the Marsh; A Quiet Home; Pasture Lands; A Sketch in the Corn Fields; A Glorious Ending; Bull's Head; Jacobstown Mill; Broad and Star; Where Golden-rod and Asters Grow; A Sketch Near Mentor; Oat Field; A Sketch; The Peaceful Shade; Apple Tree in the Lane; Oysterville; The Pet; From the Pasture; Prairie Land; Low Tide on Cape Ann; Woodland; Silver Poplars; The Glory of the Heavens; Drifting Clouds; Hazy Morning; Death of the Old Year; Old George; Under the Willows; Along the Beach; Jersey Calf's Head; The Gray Trees; Mile-Stone; My Uncle; The Approach of Evening; Study of a Cow's Head; The Way Home; Golden Days; The Brook; Corn-Shock; Illinois Prairie; A Gusty Day; The Ridge; Beach at Manchester; Shady Walk; Lone Pine Hill; Glowing Sky; Where Rushes Grow; Nature's Clothing; Invitation to the Country; Road Through the Woods; Coast of Maine; Keene Valley Farm; In the Woods; Steps to Heaven; On the Rocks; Autumn Glory; The Birches; Old Grout House; Grazing; Sea View; "Against the Wall a Tangled Bow"'; Sunshine and Shadow; Old Beach at Bedford; Pleasant By-Ways; The Day is Ending; Twin Lights; View of Marblehead from Manchester; Departing Glory; A Misty Day; By the Canal; Study of the Corn-Field; Tangle of Light and Shade; Midsummer; The Browning Fields; Glimpse of the Lake; The Sturdy Branch; "Through the After-glow She Saw the Pale New Moon"; The Farm-yard; The Day is Far Spent; The Green Turf of the Prairie; "Serene and Still"; Home of the Birds; Standing Grain; The Overflow; The End of Harvest; In the Shade of the Apple Tree; Binding Grain; A Corner of the Old Granary; The Trees are Sere; In the Midst of Harvest; Ruddy with Autumn; Waiting at the Bars; Evening Comes; Among the Mountains; Road by the Harvest Field; Running Stream; The Roadway; The Old Apple Tree; View from the Attic Window; The Topmost Branch; Among the Weeds; A Quiet Day; Adirondack Mountains; Lobster Canning House; Cow's Head; The Lane; By the River; Old Shed; Sunlight on the Mountain; Park Street Church from the Granary; The Mountain Range; Full Sail; Copy of Daubigny; Copy of Rousseau; "The Night is Descending";  A-V Cloud Studies; A Study at Evanston; 50 watercolors: Glorious are the Woods; On the Lake; Ohio Woods; Rest Beneath the Willows; Headland on the Coast of Maine; High Tide on the Marshes; O'er Windy Hills; Left by the Tide; Early Spring; Home of Garfield; The Old Doorway; Cook's Lane; Along the Coast; The Quiet Cove; They Stand Like Wigwams; 
  
  May 28-June 30, 1888: First Annual Exhibition of American Oil Paintings, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: The Rest
  
  1888: Union League Club, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1909: Boston Art Club, Boston, Massachusetts
  
  1933, 1934: A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings & Sculpture, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1994: Raymond Agler Fine Arts, North Andover, Massachuetts; Sunday Stroll
  
  American Water Color Society, New York, New York
  
  Boston Art Club, Boston, Massachusetts
  
  Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
  
  Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
  
  Salmagundi Club,
  
  Society of American Artists
• Collections The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  Chicago History Museum, Chicago, Illinois
  
  Western Reserve Historical Society, Cincinnati, Ohio
• Publications :  “Art Notes,” Graphic: An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper, February 6, 1892.  Catalog of Paintings, Studies and Sketches of Annie C. Shaw, 1887. Rubenstein, Charlotte Streifer. American Women Artists: From Early Indian Times to the Present, 1982. Woods, Marianne Berger, “Shaw, Annie Cornelia.”  in Women Building Chicago, 1790-1990: A Biographical Directory. Rima Lunin Schultz and Adele Hast, ed.
• Memberships Palette Club of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1875: Elected Associate of the Chicago Academy of Design, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1879: elected Academician, Chicago Academy of Design, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1886: elected honorary member, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1886: elected honorary member of the Bohemian Club, Chicago, Illinois
• Awards 1864: silver medal, Illinois State Fair; pencil drawing
• Archive(s) Chicago Academy of Design Papers, Ryerson Library, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois  
• Other Occupation(s) 1874-1881: Art teacher, Chicago, Illinois
• Biography Parents:   Dr. S.W. and Louis M. Shaw
  
  Siblings: one older sister