Eda Sterchi  

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  • Eda
  • Elizabeth
  • Sterchi
  • Sterchi  
  • Eugene Cole Wharf (1880-circa 1956) of Olney, married 1902 at her parent’s house in Olney, an 8 pm wedding; for honeymoon, took B&O train to St. Louis, then Leeline Steamer to Memphis and other points south; divorced about 1908, definitely by 1910 at age 55,  district agent for a life insurance company received a Selective Service Medal certificate from President Harry Truman for his service is administering the Selective Service System second wife was Elizabeth J. Seed (Bridgeport, Illinois November 28, 1875-July 28, 1946 Knox County, Illinois); they married March 20, 1912 and had one son, Eugene C. Wharf
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  • May 24, 1885
  • Olney, Illinois
  • October 10, 1969
  • Paradise Valley, Arizona
  • Swiss
  • 1910-1914: Paris, France

    12 years, divided her time between Tunisia and Chicago

    1930s: wintered at her one-room cabin residence on 160 acres in Phoneix, Arizona

    1941, built an adobe home on her Arizona homestead where she spent the remainder of her life
  • Chicago, Illinois

    Olney, Illinois

    1988-1939, 1940-1962: spent winters inPhoenix, Arizona
  • Painter-Oil, Printmaker
  • 1908: enrolled in School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; student of Lorado Taft; focused on figure composition, watercolor, illustration, portraiture, and printmaking
    1910-1914: Paris, France; student of Lucien Simon; student of Rene Menard Prinet and Deballiere
    Institute de Carthage, Carthage, Tunisia
     
     
  • 1910: fist trip to Taos, New Mexico

    1920s: Morocco, Algeria, Libya, Tunisia

     
  • Array
  • 1913+: American Artists Club, Paris, France

    1913+: International Artists Union, Paris, France

    November 16, 1915-January 2, 1916: American Oil Paintings and Sculpture, Twenty-Eighth Annual Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Portrait: E.S.; In Bou Sada

    February 8-March 5, 1916: Twentieth Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Dance of the Ouled Nayls

    November 2-December 7, 1916: Twenty-Ninth Annual Exhibition of American Oil Paintings & Sculpture, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Portrait: Mrs. J. S. Nicholson

    1916-17: Chicago Society of Artists,

    February 1-March 4, 1917: Twenty-First Annual Exhibition of Artists of Chicago and Vicinity; The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Sketch: Self-Portrait; The Kouba Bou Sada; Sketch: Michigan Avenue, Twilight; In Bou Sada; Portrait: Anne Sterchi Shultz; Portrait: Paul Schoenfeld

    February 14-March 17, 1918: Twenty-Second Annual Exhibition of Works by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; A Summer Sketch; A Portrait

    February 13-March 30, 1919: Twenty-Third Annual Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Michigan Avenue; South Michigan Avenue; Mrs. Constantine Harcoff; Rainy Day; Still LIfe

    January 29-March 3, 1920: Twenty-Fourth Annual Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity; The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois:  Portrait of Dr. F.T. Fahlen; Taos Indian; Corn Dance; A Pueblo

    July 18-October 11, 1929: Paintings by Eda Sterchi, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

    March 20-October 9, 2016: Eda Sterchi: Embodying the New Woman, Evergreen Museum & Library, Baltimore, Maryland

    November 15, 2019 – January 11, 2020: Village Life: Art, Culture and Community in New Mexico, The Owings Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico : Indian Dance with Villagers, Corn Dance in the Pueblo, oil on board; 17 3/4 x 14 1/2 inches

    June 25-September 6, 2020: Eda Sterchi: Nomadic Spirit, Evansville Museum, Evansville, Indiana

    Santa Barbara Museum of Art

    Phoenix Art Museum

    Museum of New Mexico

    Boston, Massachusetts

    New York, New York

    Tunisia

    Evansville Museum, Evansville, Indiana

    Evergreen Museum and Library

     
  • Mrs. Whitelaw Reid

    Girls' Club, Paris, France

    Kenneth Drew and Jerry Johnson
  • Chicago Artist Guild, Chicago, Illinois

    Chicago Arts Club, Chicago, Illinois

    Chicago Society of Artists, Chicago, Illinois

    Institute de Carthage, Carthage, Tunisia
  • Tunisian Government awarded the title of Officer in the Order of Nichan Iktikhar, the Tunisian equivalent to the French Legion, which was rarely granted to women

    the violet ribbon of the Palmes Academiques from the French Ministry of Public Instruction and Fine Arts
  • 1909: assistant teacher in the Saturday Sketch Class, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

    taught at the Academie de la Grand Chaumiere, Paris, France

    guide to artists in the territory in and around Tunis

    Public Works of Art Project (PWAP)
  • YouTube from 2020 exhibition at Evansville Museum, Evansville, Indiana

    biography on Owings Gallery website

    biography on Peter Jung Fine Art website

    biography on Evansville Museum of Art website

    American Gallery blog post

     
  • parents: Frederick and Elizabeth Urfer Sterchi, Swiss immigrants

    She was the first among her peers to cut her hair into a bob, get a divorce, and smoke a cigarette.