Enella Benedict (1848-1942)
Edith, 1895
oil on canvas
Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
Enella Benedict (1858-1942)
pastel
Enella Benedict (1858-1942)
oil on board
Enella Benedict (1858-1942)
oil
Enella Benedict (1858-1942)
Young Boy at Work
Enella Benedict (1858-1942)
Brittany Children, 1892
oil on canvas
Collection of National Museum of Women in the Arts
Enella Benedict (1858-1942)
Houses and Street
oil on board
Artist Details
Enella
Benedict
December 21, 1858
Lake Forest, Illinois
April 6, 1942
Richmond, Virginia
1895-1908+?: 335 S Halsted St, Chicago
1889: 4 Washington Place
1891: Lake Forest, Illinois
1907: 800 S. Halsted St., Chicago, Illinois
1908: 355 S. Halsted St., Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Drawing, Painter-Oil, Pastelist, Watercolorist
1874-1877: Lake Forest University – painting and drawing
1903-1904, 1910-1911: School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Art Students’ League, NYC
Académie Julian, Paris, student of Jules Joseph Levebre, JeanJoseph Benjamin-Constant and Jean-Paul Laurens
Paris, France
spent summers at her cottage in Westport Point, Massachusetts
Array
April 13-May 25, 1889: Water Color Exhibition, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Sand Dunes, St. Joseph, Mich., watercolor
March 23-April 19, 1891: Third Spring Exhibition of Water Color, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; The Thames at Windsor, watercolor
April 24-May 10, 1891: Eighth Annual Exhibition Palette Club, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; In the Luxembourg Gardens, watercolor; English Landscape, watercolor
December 12, 1895-1896: The 2nd Annual Exhibition of the Art Students’ League of Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago: A Foot Path, watercolor and Salt Marsh and Cedars, watercolor
November 7029, 1897: 8th Annual Exhibition of New York Water Color Club, [had their own gallery?], New York, New York: St. Christine’s Girls.
1889, 1911, 1912: Annual Exhibition of Water Colors, Pastels and Miniatures by American Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; 1911: Greek Easter Procession on Halsted St., pastel; 1912: The Many, pastel
1900-1926: Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (8 times)
1900: Annual Exhibition of Oil Paintings & Sculpture by American Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
January 14-February 23, 1901: 70th Annual Exhibition of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Evening in the Village, watercolor or drawing
October 20-November 29, 1908: Annual Exhibition of Oil Paintings & Sculpture by Contemporary American Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Chicago Society of Artists
Hull House, Chicago, Illinois
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, Illinois
Smithsonian Collection, Washington, DC
Cameron, William E. The World's Fair, Being a Pictorial History of the Columbian Exposition: Containing a Complete History of the World-Renowned Exposition at Chicago, 1893.
Falk, Peter Hastings. The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute fo Chicago, 1888-1950. 1990.
Ganz, Cheryl R., Enella Benedict. Women Building Chicago 1790-1990: A Biographical Dictionary. ed. Rima Lunin Schultz and Adele Hast (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2001.
Ed. Ganz, Cheryl; Strobel, Margaret. Pots of Promise: Mexicans and Pottery at Hull-House, 1920-1940. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2004(9/14/1826-4/20/1913)
Palette Club, Chicago, Illinois
1893: first prize, 50th Annual Black-and-white Exposition of the Chicago Society of Artists, Chicago, Illinois: The Singing Spinners
4 items consisting of 2 items of correspondence exchanged between Enella Benedict and Jane Addams, a tribute to Benedict read at her funeral service in 1942, and a bookplate at University of Illinois at Chicago, Richard J. Daley Library Special Collections and University Archives.
teacher, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Director of art programs at Hull House Art School for nearly 50 years; taught clay modeling, drawing, and lithography
She was the daughter of cloth merchant Amzi (9/14/1826-4/20/1913) and Catherine Courtland Walmath Benedict (1829-8/30/1907); both born in New York, New York. Amzi Benedict was with the Field, Benedict & Company firm and was a city council member and mayor of Lake Forest. Her younger siblings included Caroline, William Walrath Benedict (1857-1858), Albert Grant Benedict (1864-1880), Sidney Amzi Benedict (1867-1938) and Kate Waltrath Benedict (1870-1881).
Some her students were Morris Topchevsky, Francis Smith, Donald Benson Blanding, William Jacobs