Eva Watson-Schutze

Artist Details

• First Name Eva
• Maiden Name Watson
• Alternate Name(s) Eva Lawrence Schutze Eva L. Watson-Schutze Eva Watson Schutze
• Surname Watson-Schutze
• Spouse’s Full Name partner: Amelia Van Buren
• Previous Spouse(s) Martin Schütze; German; lawyer in Chicago; 1900-1901: German instructor, Northwestern University; married 1901; later professor of German literature and language, University of Chicago
• Names and Birth Years of Children n/a
• Birth Date September 16, 1867
• Birth Place Jersey City, New Jersey
• Death Date May 20, 1935
• Death Place Chicago, Illinois
• Ethnicity Scottish-American
• Residence(s) 1897-1901: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  
  1901-1905: Chicago, Illinois
  
  1905-?: Hyde Park, Illinois
• Studio Location(s) 1894-1896: Jersey City, New Jersey with Amelia Van Buren 1897: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1901-?: Fine Arts Building, Chicago, Illinois summers 1903-?: Byrdcliffe, Woodstock, New York
• Categories Painter-Oil, Photographer
• Training circa 1882-circa 1888: Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; student of Thomas Eakins and Thomas Anshutz; painting and clay modeling
  1913-?: student of Thomas Schumacher, Woodstock, New York
  
• Subject(s) of Art Array
• Exhibitions History Woodstock, New York
  
  New York, New York
  
  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  
  1898: Philadelphia Salon – 6 photographs [Alfred Stieglitz on jury]
  
  Alfred Stieglitz Gallery 291, New York, New York
  
  1926: The Art Club: First Annual Student Art Exhibition, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1985: Eva Watson Schütze: Chicago Photo-Secessionist, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
• Collections Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
  
  University of Chicago, Special Collections, Chicago, Illinois
• Publications Block, Jean F. Eva Watson Schütze: Chicago Photo-Secessionist, University of Chicago, 1985. Brown, Karen Ruby, “Eva Lawrence Watson Schütze,” Hast, Adele and Rima Lunin Schultz, eds. Women Building Chicago 1790-1990: A Biographical Dictionary. Bloomington, IN: University of Indiana Press, 2000. Johnston, Francis Benjamin, “The Foremost women Photographers in America,” Lady’s Home Journal, September 1901 Jacobsen, J. Z. Art of Today, Chicago, 1933. Panzer, Mary, Philadelphia Naturalistic Photography: 1865-1906, 1982. Rosenblum, Naomi,. A History of Women Photographers, 1994 her writings in Camera Notes; Camera Work; American Amateur Photography 1900-1904
• Memberships 1899: elected into Philadelphia Photographic Society, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  
  1901: The Linked Ring, London, England
  
  Photo-Secession, New York, New York (founding member 1903)
  
  1902: co-founder with husband of Byrdcliffe Arts and Crafts colony, Woodstock, New York
• Archive(s) Martin Schütze Papers, University of Chicago Special Collections, Chicago, Illinois Stieglitz Archives, Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut [54 letters she wrote to him] The Woodstock Artists Association, Woodstock, New York Woodstock Historical Society, Woodstsock, New York
• Other Occupation(s) commercial artist
  
  lectured and wrote on photography as an art form
  
  1929-1935: President of Renaissance Society
• Website(s) entry from J.Z. Watson’s Art of Today Chicago 1933 is available on the Illinois Historical Art Project website
• Biography Philadelphia studio became a gathering place for the Philadelphia Naturalists (group of photographers seeking to promote photography as a fine art – pictorialism)
  
  returned to painting after move to Chicago
  
  suffered from myocarditis
  
  she presented a paper in 1933, “Women in the Fine Arts,” delineating the incomplete history of women artists over previous 2,500 years [in Martin Schütze Papers, University of Chicago Special Collections]