Frances Comstock

Artist Details

• First Name Frances
• Middle Name Christine
• Maiden Name Bassett
• Surname Comstock
• Spouse’s Full Name Enos Benjamin Comstock (December 24, 1879, Milwaukee, Wisconsin - March 19, 1945, Fort Lee, New Jersey) June 22, 1905: married in Chicago, Illinois artist and writer
• Names and Birth Years of Children 12/1908: Henry B. (writer, artist in Blauvelt, New York) circa 1917: Alfred (photographer in Leonia, New Jersey)
• Birth Date October 16, 1880
• Birth Place Elyria, Ohio
• Death Date February 12, 1922
• Death Place Leonia, New Jersey
• Residence(s) before 1910: 2761 Magnolia Ave, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1910-1922: 176 Highwood Ave., Leonia, New Jersey
• Active In Chicago, Illinois
  
  Leonia, New Jersey
• Categories Drawing, Illustrator, Painter, Sculptor, Watercolorist
• Training School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; student of Frederick W. Freer, Gary Melchers, and John Vanderpoel
  student of Will H Low,?
   
  
• Subject(s) of Art Array
• Exhibitions History 1904: Annual Exhibition of Water Colors, Pastels and Miniatures by American Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1919-1920: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  American Water Color Society
  
  Society of Western Artists
  
   
• Publications 300th Anniversary Art Exhibit, Leonia, New Jersey, 1968. Falk, Peter H. ed. Who Was Who in American Art. Madison, CT: Sound View Press, 1999. vol. 1. Mattingly, Paul H. An American Art Colony. Rowman & Littlefield, 2019. Petteys, Chris, ed. Dictionary of Women Artists. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1985.
• Memberships New York Water Color Club
• Archive(s) McLoughlin Brothers, Inc.
• Other Occupation(s) instructor of drawing
• Biography daughter of Alfred and Mary E. Bassett.
  
  Comstock and husband were both on the staff of McLoughlin Bros. in New York, New York.