Emma Ingersoll

Artist Details

• First Name Emma
• Middle Name Kipling
• Maiden Name Hess
• Alternate Name(s) Emma Kipling Ingersoll
• Surname Ingersoll
• Spouse’s Full Name D.W. Ingersoll
• Names and Birth Years of Children Mary Meigs (1910-?) Daniel Winthrop Jr. Henry Gilbert
• Birth Date January 18 1878
• Birth Place Chicago, Illinois
• Death Date 1940
• Residence(s) 1878-1911: Chicago, Illinois
  
  1911-1941: Chestertown, Maryland
  
  1911-1912: Queen Street
  
  1912-1941: Silver Hill Farm
• Active In Chicago, Illinois
  
  Chesterton, Maryland
• Studio Location(s) 108 Auditorium Building, Chicago, Illinois 1912-1941: Silver Hill Farm, Chesterton, Maryland
• Categories Painter-Oil, Pastelist, Watercolorist
• Training School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
• Subject(s) of Art Array
• Exhibitions History 1904: Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, Missouri
  
  1904: Annual Exhibition of Water Colors, Pastels and Miniatures by American Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1908: Society of Women Artists, the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1940: Miniature Painters, Sculptors and Gravers Society, Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C.: Little Red Shoes
  
  2009?: Chesterton Arts League, Chesterton, Maryland
• Collections Vanderpoel Collection
• Publications Atlas, Janel C. “Emma Kipling Hess Ingersoll: Retrospective,” Delmarva Quarterly, Spring 2008, pp. 24-26.  
• Memberships American Society of Miniature Painters
  
  Chicago Society of Artists, Chicago, Illinois
  
  Society of Western Artists, associate
• Awards 1904: bronze medal: Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, Missouri
• Other Occupation(s) taught art
• Biography youngest of 8 children [Lydia; Mary; ]
  
  once a year, she traveled by train from Chesterton to Chicago and took commissions for miniature portraits; these were a major source of income for the family, and put the children through college