Gertrude Spaller

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  • 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

    performed in theater