Ethel Mars

Artist Details

• First Name Ethel
• Surname Mars
• Spouse’s Full Name partner: Maud Hunt Squire
• Names and Birth Years of Children n/a
• Birth Date September 19, 1876 or 1879
• Birth Place Springfield, Illinois
• Death Date March 23, 1956
• Death Place Vence, France
• Residence(s) circa 1897-1905 or 1906: New York, New York
  
  1899: 625 S. 7^th St., Springfield, Illinois
  
  1899: 364 Ontario St., Chicago, Illinois AND Springfield, Illinois
  
  1902: 212 W. 82^nd St., New York, New York
  
  1905-1906: 625 S. 7th St., Springfield, Illinois
  
  between September 1905 and April 1906-?: 39, Boulevard St. Jacques, Paris, France
  
  1906:  625 S. 7^th St., Springfield, Illinois
  
  1906-1914: Paris, France
  
  1908: 718 S. 4th St., Springfield, Illinois
  
  1909-1913: 39 Blvd. St. Jacques, Paris, France
  
  1910: 616 E. Scarritt St., Springfield, Illinois
  
  1911: 1516 S. Sixth St., Springfield, Illinois
  
  1914-1918: Provincetown, Massachusetts
  
  1915: 629 W. Prairie Ave., Decatur, Illinois
  
  1918-1925: Vernon, Francw
  
  late 1920-?: Paris, France
  
  1925-1956: Vence, France; 1928 built home they called “La Farigoule”
  
  during WWII: Isere, France
• Active In Springfield, Illinois
  
  Provincetown, Massachusetts
  
  Paris, Vernon and Vence, France
• Categories Block Printer, Painter-Oil, Pastelist, Textile designer, Watercolorist
• Training 1892-1893, 1894-1896: Cincinnati Art Academy, Cincinnati, Ohio; student of Frank Duveneck and Lewis H. Meakin
  1898: Paris, France
  
• Relevant Travel 1900-1906: several trips to Europe
  
  1902: Europe (probably Chioggia, Brittany, Germany)
  
  1905: Italy, Switzerland
  
  after 1906: throughout France, Spain, Germany
• Subject(s) of Art Array
• Exhibitions History November 15-December 18, 1898: Eleventh Annual Exhibition of Oil Paintings and Sculpture by American Artists, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Portrait of Mrs. St. J.; Dorothy
  
  February 28-March 19, 1899: Exhibition of Works by Chicago Artists, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Portrait of Miss Squire; Marie; Head, crayon; Head, pastel
  
  February 28-March 19, 1899: Third Annual Exhibition of the Society of Western Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Waiting, oil; Portrait of Mrs. M., oil
  
  May 2-June 11, 1899: Eleventh Annual Exhibition of Water-Colors, Pastels and Miniatures by American Artists, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Art Student, watercolor; On the Bridge, watercolor; Bachelor Girl, pastel
  
  February 22-March 11, 1900: 4th Annual Exhibition of Society of Western Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Last Day of School, oil; Portrait of Miss Squire, oil
  
  1902: American Water Color Society: A Caller, watercolor
  
  1903: Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio; illustrations for childrens’ books
  
  1904: Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio; paintings, drawings, prints
  
  1905: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Head, watercolor; Callers, watercolor; Women in a Carriage, watercolor; Theresa, chalk; Tiger, print; Macaws, print; Misty Morning, print; A Winter Day, woodblock; Crowned Cranes, print; In the Park, woodblock print; Winter Evening, print
  
  1906, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; In the Park, woodblock print; A Winter Day, woodblock; Flower Stand, woodblock; Street Scene, woodblock; Fishing Boats, Canarsie, woodblock; Woman with a Dog, woodblock; Restaurant, Canarsie, woodblock; The Noon Hour, woodblock
  
  1907-1913, 1922: Salon d'Automne, Paris, France
  
  1908: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Cart Horses, woodblock; At the Quay, Concarneau, woodblock; Horse and Cart, woodblock; Breton Cart Horse, woodblock; Sardine Nets, woodblock; Breton Fishing Boats, woodblock; Fishing Boat, Concarneau, woodblock; Horse, Vitre, woodblock
  
  1909: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; The Woman with the Red Feather
  
  January 23-March 20, 1910: 105^th Annual Exhibition of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Woman with a Monkey; Woman with a Jaguar
  
  1910: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; A Young Girl
  
  February 5-March 26, 1911: 106^th Annual Exhibition of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Woman in Blue
  
  1911: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Portrait of a Child
  
  1912: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; The Child with the Shawl
  
  1913: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Portrait: A Child
  
  1915: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Springtime, watercolor; The Dansant, watercolor; Early Morning, watercolor; Printing a Wood-block, watercolor
  
  1915-1919: Art Association, Provincetown, Rhode Island
  
  September 10-October 22, 1978: Ethel Mars: Early 1900s Expatriate, Illinois State Museum, Springfield, Illinois; 15 works
  
  1983: Provincetown Painters: A Woodcut Tradition, National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.
  
  October 12-November 22, 2000: Tres Complémentaires: The Art and Lives of Ethel Mars and Maud Hunt Squire, Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, New York: 58 works
  
  Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC
  
  National Academy of Design, New York, New York
  
  Paris Salon, Paris, France
  
  Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  
  Salon d’Automne, Paris, France
• Collections Collection of the French Government
  
  Illinois State Museum, Springfield, Illinois
  
  National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.
  
  Sangamon Valley Collection, Illinois
  
  Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
  
  Springfield Art Association, Springfield, Illinois
• Publications Flint, Janet. Provincetown Printers: A Woodcut Tradition, National Museum of American Art, 1983. Marks, Matthew.  "Provincetown Prints," The Print Collectors Newsletter.  September/October 1984. Pickel, Susan E. “Ethel Mars: Illinois Impressionist,” The Living Museum, vol. 40, no. 4 July-August 1978. Ryan, Catherine. Tres Complémentaires; The Art and Lives of Ethel Mars and Maud Hunt Squire, 2000.
• Memberships Salon d'Automne, Paris, France
  
  Societe des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
  
  Society of Western Artists
  
  1899: Associate Member, Society of Watercolor Artists, Cincinnati
• Awards 1907: first premium, portrait in oil; first premium, head in oil; first premium, figure in oil; first premium, landscape in oil; first premium, portrait in watercolor; first premium, head in watercolor; first premium, figure painting in watercolor; premium, best watercolor painting on exhibition; first premium, head or figure in pastel; first and second premiums, illustrated poem or short story; first premium, sculpture; Illinois State Fair, Springfield, Illinois
• Other Occupation(s) circa 1897: commercial book illustrator for R.H. Russell, New York, New York
  
  1910s: taught woodcutting at Provincetown, Massachusetts
• Biography "hobnobbed" with Marc Chagall, Pablo Picasso, D.H. Lawrence, Gertrude Stein
  
  Gertrude Stein’s poem Miss Furr and Miss Skeene is based on Mars and her companion, Maud Hunt Squire; originally published 1922, then in Vanity Fair in 1923
  
  following end of WWI, active in an artists’ colony in Vence, France that included Marsden Hartley, Oliver Chaffee, Ada Gilmore, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Reginald Marsh, and Chaim Soutine