Gertrude Spaller (1891-1970)
Woman Seated, circa 1920
Artist Details
Gertrude
Sylvia
Spaller
Spaller
Harry Armstrong (Watertown, New York September 16, 1883-1954 Manistee, Michigan), artist and her teacher; graduate of School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; worked for a time as a cartoonist for western newspapers, living for a time in Portland, Oregon, on a houseboat. He subsequently returned to Chicago and went into commercial art*, working for many years for the Chicago Street Railways Advertising Company and teaching art to evening classes at the Art Institute of Chicago; first wife was Louise Van Voorhies (April 8, 1911)
Pierre Jermain Kinder (Tolona, Illinois circa 1886/ May 3, 1883-February 16, 1944 Cook County, Illinois); married before 1922
Margaret Elizabeth Kinder (Evanston, Illinois 1923-1989)
Ray J. Kinder (1925-2012)
June 8, 1891
Chicago, Illinois
March 12, 1870
Fayetteville, North Carolina
circa 1916: 6332 Glenwood Ave, Chicago, Illinois
1940 census: 2815 Grant St., Evanston, Illinois; with Gertrude’s mother and Pierre’s stepmother, Katherine W. Kinder (age 82)
circa 1913: Chicago, Illinois
Evanston, Illinois
Highland Park, Illinois
1912: 1101 Auditorium Building, Chicago, Illinois
Muralist, Painter-Oil
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Student of Harry Armstrong
Array
Chicago Society of Artists
American Water Color Club
April 2-30, 1912: Eighteenth Annual Exhibition of the Art Student League of Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; By Morning Light, oil; The Little Cloud, oil
1916: Annual Exhibition of the Art Students League of Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
February 14-March 17, 1918: Twenty-Second Annual Exhibition by Artists of Chicago & Vicinity, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Genevieve
1922: Second Retrospective Exhibition of the Art Institute Alumni Association, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Adrienne, oil
Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Chicago Artists Guild, Chicago, Illinois
Chicago Society of Artists, Chicago, Illinois
1916: Municipal Art League Prize for Murals,
Illustrator, needlework & clothing books, and Rand McNally books