Eleanor DeLaittre

Artist Details

• First Name Eleanor
• Maiden Name DeLaittre
• Alternate Name(s) Eleanor deLaittre Shepard Eleanor Brown Eleanor deLaittre Brown  
• Surname DeLaittre
• Spouse’s Full Name Edwin Anthony Brown (1899-1960)
• Previous Spouse(s) Merrill Shepard of Winnepeg married September 1934 in Wayzata Church, Minnesota
• Birth Date April 3, 1911
• Birth Place Hennepin, Minnesota
• Death Date January 9, 1998
• Residence(s) Minneapolis
  
  Boston
  
  New York
  
  1934-1940: Chicago, Illinois
  
  1940-?: New York, New York
• Active In Chicago, Illinois
  
  New York, New York
• Categories Painter-Oil, Sculptor
• Training Smith College
  ?-1932: School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
  to New York March 1934 ; the George Luks Studio; student of George Luks and John Sloan
  learned welding from Ibram Lassaw
  
• Exhibitions History 1933 Midtown Gallery, New York, New York
  
  1933 Contemporary Arts Galleries, New York, New York
  
  1934 Montross Gallery, New York, New York
  
  1934 Uptown Gallery of the Continental Club, New York, New York
  
  1938 Art Institute, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1939 Contemporary Arts Galleries, New York, New York [solo]
  
  1939: World’s Fair, New York, New York
  
  1939:  Golden Gate Exposition, San Francisco, California
  
  March 14-April 14, 1940: Forty-Fourth Annual Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: Abstraction
  
  April 15-?, 1940: American Abstract Artists, 13 W. 17^th St., New York, New York:  Reflections; Floating Divide 
  
  March 11-April 1, 1941: Forty-Fifth Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: Park Bench
  
  1941 American Abstract Artists, Riverside Museum, New York, New York
  
  1942 American Abstract Artists, American Fine Arts Building, New York, New York
  
  1942 Paul Theobald Gallery, Chicago, Illinois [solo]
  
  1943 Puma Gallery, New York, New York [solo]
  
  February 16-March 6, 1943: Two One Man Shows, Puma Gallery, New York, New York;
  
  1943 American-British Art Center, New York, New York
  
  1944 American Abstract Artists, Mortimer Brandt Gallery, New York, New York
  
  1945 American Abstract Artists, Riverside Museum, New York, New York
  
  1946 American Abstract Artists, American-British Art Center, New York, New York
  
  1947 American Abstract Artists, Riverside Museum, New York, New York
  
  1950 Hacker Gallery and Bookshop, New York, New York
  
  1952 American Abstract Artists, New Gallery, New York, New York
  
  1952 Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors annual, National Arts Club, New York, New York
  
  1953 American Abstract Artists Equity Association, New York, New York
  
  1954 American Abstract Artists, Riverside Museum, New York, New York
  
  1956 American Abstract Artists, Riverside Museum, New York, New York
  
  1982 Diamond Gallery, New York, New York
  
  1984 Martin Diamond Fine Arts, New York, New York
  
  1987: New Jersey State Museum,
  
  1989 Group exhibition, National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.
  
  May ?-June 5, 1999: Group exhibition, David Findlay Jr. Inc., New York
  
  Minneapolis Art Institute, Rockefeller Center, Golden Gate Exposition, American Abstract Art Group
• Publications Virginia M. Mecklenburg. The Patricia and Phillip Frost Collection: American Abstraction 1930–1945 (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press for the National Museum of American Art, 1989)
• Memberships 1940-1946: American Abstract Artists, Chicago, Illinois
  
  Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors, New York, New York
• Archive(s) John DeLaittre and Family Papers, Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul, Minnesota
• Website(s) page on Wikipedia
  
  page on Smithsonian American Art Museum website
• Biography Karl (1874-1957) and Rosamond Little DeLaittre, Ferndale, Lake Minnetonka, Minnesota; married 1906
  
  Siblings:   John DeLaittre (Minneapolis Minnesota September 7, 1907-February 4, 1992); married Carolyn Erminger (1911-1982) of Chicago, married April 30, 1934; children Corinne, Carolyn, Lila; married Lee Stillman Anderson November 2, 1974 in Santa Barbara, Callifornia, divorced 1980; married Delores O’Brien December 17, 1981
  
  Karl Jr. (1909-1939)
  
  Rosamond (1918-1993)
  
   
  
  family called her "Oney"