Elizabeth Maher

Artist Details

• First Name Elizabeth
• Middle Name Isabelle
• Maiden Name Brooks
• Alternate Name(s) Bessie Brooks -- see for more information
• Surname Maher
• Spouse’s Full Name George Washington Brooks (1864-1926) married October 25, 1893 architect
• Names and Birth Years of Children Philip B. Maher (1894-1981)
• Birth Date December 22, 1866
• Birth Place Ohio
• Death Date October 10, 1963
• Death Place Kenilworth, Illinois
• Residence(s) 1891: 4337 St. Lawrence Ave., Chicago, Illinois
  
  circa 1893: 4020 Drexel Blvd, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1893-1963: 424 Warwick Road, Kenilworth, Illinois [designed by her husband]
• Active In Chicago, Illinois
  
  Kenilworth, Illinois
• Studio Location(s) 1893: 80 Athenaeum Building, Chicago, Illinois
• Categories Watercolorist
• Exhibitions History April 24-May 10, 1891: Annual Exhibition, Palette Club, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Nasturtiums; Roses; Portrait; Chrysanthemums; Dry Creek in Adirondacks, Old Man all watercolors
  
  1893: World's Columbian Exposition, Women’s Department; Chicago, Illinois; Charcoal Head
  
  1894: Annual Exhibition, Palette Club, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1895: Palette Club, Chicago, Illinois; Eighty and One
  
  1898, 1900: Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  May 7 – June 5, 1912: The Twenty-Fourth Annual Exhibition of Watercolors, Pastels and Miniatures by American Artists. Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Noonday
  
  January 8-February 7, 1918: first exhibition of work by the alumni of the Art Institute of Chicago  Chrysanthemums watercolor
  
  May 11-June 6, 1920: The Thirty-Second Annual Exhibition of Water Colors, Pastels and Miniatures by American Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois  Chrysanthemums, watercolor
• Memberships Palette Club of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
• Biography daughter of Chicago painter Alden Finney Brooks (1840-1932)
  
  sister of Carol (Carrie) Brooks MacNeil (1871-1944)