Grace Betts

Artist Details

• First Name Grace
• Middle Name May
• Maiden Name Betts
• Alternate Name(s) Gay Betts
• Surname Betts
• Spouse’s Full Name n/a
• Names and Birth Years of Children n/a
• Birth Date 1883
• Birth Place New York, New York
• Death Date 1978
• Death Place Yucaipa, California
• Residence(s) 4125 Lake Ave, Chicago, Illinois
  
  600 4^th St/PO Box 1074, Del Mar, California
  
  Theosophical Society and Universal Brotherhood headquarters, Point Loma, California
  
  1936-1946: Laguna Beach, California
  
  1948-1954: Carlsbad, California
  
  1964-1978: Salome, Arizona and Beaumont and Calimesa, California
• Active In Chicago, Illinois
  
  Point Loma, California
  
  Laguna Beach, California
• Categories Batik, Illustrator, Muralist, Painter
• Training student of Jane and Edwin Betts, her parents
  1903: graduated with honors School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; attended on a scholarship starting in 1900
  
• Relevant Travel Cuba, where she taught at the Theosophical Society's Raja Yoga Academy
  
  New Mexico and Arizona
• Subject(s) of Art Array
• Exhibitions History 1904, 1905+?: Annual Exhibition of Water Colors, Pastels and Miniatures by American Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  2015: Western American Art: South of the Sweet Tea Line 4, Booth Western Art Museum, Georgia: Maria Montoya Martinez
  
  October 18, 2019-April 19, 2020: The Path of the Mystic: Art & Theosophy at Lomaland, San Diego History Center, San Diego, California
  
  Laguna Beach Museum of Art
• Collections Santa Fe Railroad Company
  
  All Tribes Indian Center, Chicago, Illinois
  
  Bowen Museum of Cultural Art, Santa Ana, California
  
  John H. Vanderpoel Art Association,
• Publications

  Kovinick, Phil and Marian Yoshiki-Kovinick. An Encyclopedia of Women Artists of the American West (American Studies Series). Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 1998.

• Biography Father was Edwin Daniel Betts Sr. (1847-1915) and mother was
  
  Her brothers were Louis L. (1873-1961), Edwin Daniel, Jr. (1879-1915) and Harold Harrington (1881-1951); her sister was Vera.