Caroline Wade

Artist Details

• First Name Caroline
• Middle Name Dupee
• Maiden Name Wade
• Alternate Name(s) Caroline Dupee Wade Miss C.D. Wade
• Surname Wade
• Names and Birth Years of Children n/a
• Birth Date April 25, 1857
• Birth Place Chicago, Illinois
• Death Date April 1, 1947
• Death Place Elmhurst, Illinois
• Residence(s) came to Elmhurst (then known as Cottage Hill) in 1863 with parents
  
  258 South York St., Elmhurst, Illinois
  
  (family home illustrated in Elmhurst: Scenes from Yesterday. Elmhurst, IL: Elmhurst Historical Commission, 1986)
  
  summers painting in Monhegan, Maine
  
  with Winston family, Elmhurst, Illinois
• Active In Elmhurst, Illinois
  
  Chicago, Illinois
• Studio Location(s) Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois circa 1890s: 728 Athenaeum, Chicago, Illinois Cable Building studio, Chicago, Illinois
• Categories Muralist, Printmaker
• Training School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; student of H.F. Spread and L.C. Earle
  Academie Colarossi, Paris, France
  Student of Courtois & Rixens, Paris, France
  Student of George J. Robertson
  
• Relevant Travel Paris, France
• Subject(s) of Art Array
• Exhibitions History 1872, 1885: Interstate Industrial Exposition, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1872-1891: Inter-State Industrial Exposition, Hall of Art, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1880-1895: Bohemian Club, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1883, 1884, 1885: Annual Exhibition, Bohemian Art Club, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1884, 1885: Bohemian Club, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1890, 1891, 1892: Art Students League, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1891, 1892, 1894: Annual Exhibition, Palette Club, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1893: American Water Color Society, New York, New York
  
  1893: World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Illinois; Lady in Gray
  
  1893-1895: Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  
  1895: Young Fortnightly Exhibition,
  
  1896: Boston Art Club, Boston, Massachusetts
  
  May 1-October 31, 1897: Tennessee Centennial and International Exposition, Nashville, Tennessee: A Cloisonne Jar
  
  1896: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Off Shoal Point, Monhegan
  
  1897-1905 (6 times), 1910, 1911: Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1898: Trans-Mississippi Exposition, Omaha, Nebraska
  
  1898, 1910: Annual Exhibition of Oil Paintings & Sculpture by American Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1898, 1911: Society of Western Artists annual exhibitions, Detroit, Michigan
  
  Jacksonville, Illinois
  
  St. Louis, Missouri
  
  Minneapolis, Minnesota
• Collections Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  Elmhurst Historical Museum, Elmhurst, Illinois
  
  Elmhurst Public Library, Elmhurst, Illinois
• Publications “Elms Artists, Famous in 1893, Still Living,” 100 Years of Elmhurst News. Elmhurst Centennial Historical Committee, June 3, 1936. Gilmore, A Recollection. ?? Russell, Don. Elmhurst: Trails from Yesterday. Elmhurst Bicentennial Commission, 1977. Strand, Ruth and Eugenie Urick. The First Ladies of Elmhurst: Prominent Women of the Twentieth Century. Elmhurst, IL: City of Elmhurst, 2001.
• Memberships American Federation of Arts
  
  Art Association of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  Art Students League of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; President
  
  Chicago Society of Artists, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1883: Bohemian Club, Chicago, Illinois
  
  Palette Club, Chicago, Illinois (1892-1895: Assistant Secretary)
  
  Society of Western Artists (associate member, 1901; 1911: member)
• Awards 1881: anatomy prize in drawing, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
• Archive(s) Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
• Other Occupation(s) from 1883 or from 1901: Instructor, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  started the Saturday Classes for Children program, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
• Website(s) essay by Ruth Strand for The First Ladies of Elmhurst: Prominent Women of the Twentieth Century on the website of the Elmhurst Art Museum
• Biography her mother went insane, and Caroline never married because she feared she would, too
  
  signed works “Carrie D. Wade” until 1891