Grace Ravlin

Artist Details

• First Name Grace
• Surname Ravlin
• Birth Date April 15, 1873
• Birth Place Kaneville, Illinois
• Death Date September 25, 1956
• Death Place Plano, Illinois
• Residence(s) 1909-1911: Kaneville, Illinois
  
  1912: 21 E. Pearson St., Chicago, Illinois
  
  1913: 11 rue Scribe, Paris, France
  
  1915: 4333 Gladys Ave, Chicago, Illinois AND 854½ N. State St. Chicago, Illinois AND Stock Yard Inn, Chicago, Illinois AND 1256 N. State St. , Chicago, Illinois
  
  1916-1918: 25 E Superior St, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1921-1925: New York, New York
  
  1921-1922: c/o Newcomb-Macklin Co., Chicago, Illinois
  
  1922: 30 E< Ontario St., Chicago, Illinois
  
  1925-?: Mexico City, Mexico
  
  ?-1956: Kaneville, Illinois
  
   
• Active In Chicago, Illinois                                 
  
  New York, New York
  
  Paris, France
• Studio Location(s) 1908: Fine Arts Building, Chicago, Illinois
• Categories Painter-Oil, Watercolorist
• Training Industrial and Normal School, Sugar Grove, Illinois
  1891-1904: School of the Art Institute, Chicago, Illnois
  1893: graduated South Division High School, Chicago, Illinois
  1901-1904: School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; student of Martha Baker (watercolor) , John Vanderpoel (figure painting, 3 years), Frederick Clay Bartlett
  1904-1906: Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Student of William Merritt Chase
  Student of Rene Menard, Paris, France
  Student of Lucien Simon, Paris, France
  student of Simon-Menard Cour, Paris, France
  Student of Ferdinand Luigini, Moret, France
  student of Guglielmo Ciardi and Vittore Zannetti-Zilla, Venice, Italy
  Student of Edward Wilbur Dean Hamilton, Boston, MA
   
  
• Relevant Travel Paris, France
  
  1908-1914: Spain, Italy, Tunisia and Morocco
  
  summers 1916, 1917: Taos and Santa Fe, New Mexico
  
  1918-1921: Tunis, Tunisia
  
  Spain
  
  Balearic Isles
  
  Cape Ann, Massachusetts
  
  Venice, Italy
  
  Holland
  
  Belgium
  
  St. Augustine, Florida
  
  Mexico
  
  Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  
  Williamsburg, Virginia
  
  Washington, D.C.
• Subject(s) of Art Array
• Exhibitions History October 19-November 26, 1905: Eighteenth Annual Exhibition of Oil Paintings and Sculpture by American Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; A Morning Fog; Moonrise; Late Afternoon
  
  1908: Annual Exhibition of Oil Paintings and Sculpture by American Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Afternoon in Venice; At Anchor, Venice; Venetian Boats; The Church on the Zattere, Venice
  
  1908-1914: Paris Salon de la Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
  
  1909: Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Gray Morning, Venice; November; Evening, Bruges; The Seine; The Port of Volendam
  
  1911: Annual Exhibition of Oil Paintings and Sculpture by American Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Under the Vine, Morocco
  
  1911: Amis des Arts, Toulon, France
  
  1912: Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Grain Market, Tangiers; Garden in Southern France; Moorish Powder Magazine; October, Moret, France
  
  1913: Annual Exhibition of Oil Paintings and Sculpture by American Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Market-day, Tangier; Gate of the Grande Socco, Tangier
  
  1913-?: Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  
  1914: Annual Exhibition of Oil Paintings and Sculpture by American Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Procession of the Dedentore, Venice; The Gondola
  
  1914: Salon des Orientalistes, Paris, France
  
  1915: Annual Exhibition of Oil Paintings and Sculpture by American Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Summer; Charcoal Venders, Tangiers; The Studio Supper; Curieuse, Tangier; Morning at the Kasba, Tangier
  
  1915: Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Stock Yard Inn, Chicago; The Game of Life; Snowy Day at the Yards
  
  May 13-June 13, 1915: Twenty-Seventh Annual Exhibition of American Water Color, Pastels, and Miniatures, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Italian Sails, watercolor
  
  1915: Panama-Pacific Exposition, San Francisco, California
  
  1916: Annual Exhibition of Oil Paintings and Sculpture by American Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Festival at Taos Pueblo
  
  1916: Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Still Life; Arab Bouquets; Florida Fruits
  
  1916: Annual Exhibition of American Water Color, Pastels, and Miniatures, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Easter; Still Life; Orchids. all watercolors
  
  1916: Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe; Santa Clara Fiesta; Cochiti Tablita Dance
  
  1917: Annual Exhibition of Oil Paintings and Sculpture by American Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Indian Dance at Laguna; Dance at Santo Domingo
  
  1917: Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Corn Dance; Indian Relay Racers, Taos; Pueblo of Taos; Indian Harvest dance; Santa Clara Fiesta
  
  1917: Solo exhibit, Carson's Galleries, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1917: Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Corn Dance, Santo Domingo; Annual Fiesta, Laguna; Entering the Kiva after the Dance
  
  1918: Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Indian Festival, Lagua, New Mexico; Sunda in Old Santa Fe; Indian dance at Isleta; In the Navajo Country; When Joffre Came; Between Dances; Taos Pueblo
  
  1918: Natures, mortes, paysages de Tunisie, du Maroc et d’Amerique, Marcel Bernheim Gallery, Paris, France
  
  1920: Marcel Bernheim Gallery, Paris, France
  
  1921: Annual Exhibition of Oil Paintings and Sculpture by American Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; The Pink House, Majorca; Corpus Christi Procession, Palma
  
  1921: Layetanas Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
  
  1922: Annual Architectural Exhibition; Paintings by Grace Ravlin, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1922: Annual Exhibition of Oil Paintings and Sculpture by American Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Interior, Salon; General George Washington’s Garden, Mt. Vernon
  
  1922: Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Evening, Marrakesh; The Blue Doors, Morocco; The Grand Socco, Tangier; Street in Kairouan, Tunis
  
  1922: Annual Exhibition of American Water Color, Pastels, and Miniatures, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Orchids and Roses, watercolor
  
  January 1924: Macbeth Gallery with Robert Henri, New York, New York
  
  1926: Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Old Convent, Mexico
  
  1927: Rockford College, Rockford, Illinois
  
  1933, 1934: A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings & Sculpture, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1936: Wunderly Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  
  1937: Marshall Field Galleries, Chicago, Illinois
  
  early 1940s: Grand Central Galleries, New York, New York
  
  Les Peintres Orientales Français, Paris, France
• Collections Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  Luxembourg Museum, Pompidou Center, Paris
  
  French Government
  
  City of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey
  
  Los Angeles (CA) Museum of Art
  
  Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
  
  Vanderpoel Art Collection, Chicago, Illinois
  
  Museum of the City of New York, New York, New York
• Publications Calvin, Paula E. and Deborah A. Deacon. American Women Artists in Wartime, 1776-2010. McFarland, 2011. Kovinick, Phil. The Woman Artist in the American West, 1860-1960. 1976. Kovinick, Phil and Marian Yoshiki-Kovinick et al. An Encyclopedia of Women Artists of the American West. 1998. North, Jessica Nelson, “Grace Ravlin—A Painter of Primitive Races,” The American Magazoine of Art, vol. XIII no. 5 (May 1922)
• Memberships Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
  
  Peintres Orientalists Francais
  
  Societaire Salon d'Automne, Paris, France
  
   
• Awards 1911: 3rd Medal, Amis des Arts, Toulon, France
  
  1912: Associate of the Societe Nationale de Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
  
  1915: Silver medal, Panama-Pacific Exposition, San Francisco, California
  
  1918: Butler Prize, Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1918: Marshall Field Prize, Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1922: Peterson Prize, Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
• Other Occupation(s) 1916-1956: Red Cross Volunteer,
  
  November 1918-July 1919: Red Cross nurses' aide
  
  Teacher, Kaneville School, Kaneville, Illinois
  
  Office worker in Chicago, Illinois
• Website(s) www.graceravlin.com
  
  mentioned in Kovibick, Phil and Marian Yoshiki-Kovinick, “Western Women Artists: An Overview”online
  
   
  
   
• Biography father: Needham Nicaner (1823-1899); first postmaster of Kaneville, Town Supervisor for 27 years, other elected positions
  
  mother: Frances Ann West (1831-1907) immigrated from England as a child
  
  deep interest in the origin of races and their relation to their native lands
  
  considered first female artist of recognized ability and widespread reputation to paint in Ne Mexico