Averil Conwell

Artist Details

• First Name Averil
• Middle Name Courtney
• Surname Conwell
• Spouse’s Full Name L.D. Conwell
• Names and Birth Years of Children Mary Conwell Hartenberger; an actress; married a US Air Force pilot; their daughter is Maryjo Hartenberger
• Birth Date April 29. 1894
• Birth Place Belvidere, Illinois
• Death Date July 17, 1990
• Death Place Upper Jay, New York
• Residence(s) Belvidere, Illinois
  
  River Forest, Illinois
  
  603 Thatcher Avenue, River Forest, Illinois
  
  summer home: Upper Jay, New York; moved then when husband took ill
• Active In Chicago, Illinois
  
  Upper Jay, New York
• Studio Location(s) Auditorium Tower, Chicago, Illinois her River Forest, Illinois home
• Categories Illustrator, Muralist, Painter-Oil
• Training Munich, student of Albrecht Stich
  Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, Chicago, Illinois
  School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  Student of John Norton, John Vanderpoel, Jon Corbino, Edmund Giesbert, Carl Krafft, Wellington J Reynolds, John Nolf
  
• Exhibitions History January 29-March 1, 1931: Thirty-Fifth Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Still Life
  
  January 12-March 5, 1933: Thirty-Seventh Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Peonies
  
  January 31-March 10, 1935: Thirty-Ninth Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Hydrangeas
  
  February 4-March 7, 1937: Forty-First Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Galena
  
  March 11-April 1, 1941: Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Aunt Electra
  
  January 27-March 5, 1944: Forty-Eighth Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Tuesday Morning
  
  1938, 1941 Findlay Galleries, Chicago, Illinois [solo] 1938: Model
  
  1941: Chicago Galleries Association Exhibition,
  
  1943, 1944, 1945: Austin, Oak Park and River Forest Art League, Oak Park, Illinois
  
  1945: Cincinnati Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio
  
  1951, 1956-1958: Findlay Galleries, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1951, 1956-1958: Lake Placid Club, Lake Placid, New York, New York [solo]
  
  Plattsburgh
• Collections Collection of Mrs. William Rockefeller
  
  Collection of Jack Mulcahy
  
  Mirror Lake Inn, Lake Placid, New York – series of murals in dining room
  
  Paradox Lodge, Lake Placid, New York
  
  Wilmington E.M. Cooper Memorial Library, Wilmington, New York
• Publications Frenette, Liza. "Mural, Mural on the Wall," Adirondack Life, Sept/Oct 1988, pp. 86-88.
• Memberships All-Illinois Society of Fine Arts
  
  Art Institute of Chicago Alumni Association
  
  Arts Club of Chicago
  
  Association of Chicago Painters & Sculptors, board member
  
  Austin, Oak Park & River ForestArt League, Illinois; board member
  
  Chicago Galleries Association
  
  Chicago No Jury Society
  
  Chicago Society of Artists
  
  Chicago Woman's Salon
  
  1928-at least 1938: Oak Park Art League
• Awards Critic's Choice of Contemporary American Painting: Book and Bonnet, 1945, oil
  
   
• Other Occupation(s) Newspaper illustration: art department, Chicago Daily News, Chicago, Illinois
  
  taught children, River Forest Art League, River Forest, Illinois
  
  Teacher, Upper Jay, New York
  
   
• Biography met Rockwell Kent in Chicago; liked the vitality and strength of his work; they became friends
  
  liked work of Impressionists Edgar Degas and Edouard Manet