Florence Stevenson

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  • Florence
  • Ezzell
  • Stevenson
  • Stevenson
  • Earle Dodds Stevenson; manufacturer
  • 2 sons
  • 1894
  • Russellville, Alabama
  • January 14, 1974
  • Chicago, Illinois
  • Chicago, Illinois

    Tuscaloosa, Alabama
  • Painter-Oil, Watercolorist
  • Tuscaloosa Conservatory of Art & Music, Tuscaloosa, Alabama
    Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, Chicago, Illinois
    School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
    Student of Buehr
    Student of S Davis
  • Array
  • 1928: All-Illinois Society of the Fine Arts, Chicago, Illinois

    1932: All-Illinois Society of Fine Arts, Congress Hotel, Chicago, Illinois [solo]; Arrangement Modern

    1933: All-Illinois Society of Fine Arts, Century of Progress Exhibition, Stevens Hotel, Chicago, Illinois

    1936: All-Illinois Society of Fine Arts, Chicago, Illinois

    1937, 1938: Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

    1938, 1945: Illinois Federation of Women's Clubs, Illinois

    1939: South Side Art Association, Chicago, Illinois

    1941: League of American Pen Women, Washington DC

    1941: League of American Pen Women, Drake Hotel, Chicago, Illinois

    1943:  Birmingham Public Library, Birmingham, Alabama [solo]

    1948, 1954: Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC,

    June 14-29, 1958: Exhibition, Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois; Breeze Through the Window

    The Parthenon, Nashville, Tennessee

    Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee

    Chicago Arts Club, Chicago, Illinois

    Congress Hotel, Chicago, Illinois [solo]

    England

    France
  • Vanderpoel Collection, Chicago, Illinois

    Museum of Science & Industry, Chicago, Illinois

    Morgan Park High School, Morgan Park, Illinois

    Sutherland School, Chicago, Illinois (?)

    Hanover College, Indiana

    Municipal buildiing, Russellville, Alabama
  • Who’s Who of American Women, 1937; one of 15 Chicago artists selected, first edition
  • American Artists Professional League, New York, New York

    South Side Art Association, Chicago, Illinois

    All-Illinois Society of Fine Arts, Chicago, Illinois

    Chicago No-Jury Society of Art, Chicago, Illinois

    League of American Pen Women, New York, New York

    Chicago Municipal Art League, Chicago, Illinois

    Ridge Art Association, Chicago, Illinois

    Southern States Art League

    Vanderpoel Art Association, Beverly, Illinois; trustee
  • 1936: Gold medal, All-Illinois Society of Fine Arts, Chicago, Illinois

    1938, 1945: Prize, Illinois Federation of Women's Clubs,

    1939: Prize, South Side Art Association, Chicago, Illinois

    Logan Prize, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  • Ridge Historical Society
  • Designer of magazine covers for Literary Digest, La Revue Moderne, The Art World, Christian Science Monitor

    chair, Art Department, Tuscaloosa Conservatory of Art & Music, Tuscaloosa, Alabama
  • Parents:  John and Laura Moody Ezzell