Harriet Cantrall

Artist Details

• First Name Harriet
• Alternate Name(s) Hattie Cantrall
• Surname Cantrall
• Spouse’s Full Name n/a
• Names and Birth Years of Children n/a
• Birth Date March 5, 1875
• Birth Place Cantrall, Illinois
• Death Date September 20, 1962
• Death Place Springfield, Illinois
• Residence(s) family moved to Springfield about 1881
  
  1906: 545 S. State St., Nebraska
  
  circa 1921: 853 Grand Blvd, Springfield, Illinois
• Active In Springfield, Illinois
• Categories Painter-Oil, Sculptor
• Training Bachelor of Arts, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York (two years)
  Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: student of Arthur W. Dow, Charles H Woodbury, H.R. Poore,  and Fursman
  Carmel Summer School of Art, Carmel, California: student of Townsend
  student of Henry Varnum Poore, Van Laer, and Herbert Adams
  Master of Fine Arts: correspondence course with the University of Oregon over 3 or 4 summers
  
• Relevant Travel Alaska
  
  Europe
  
  Hawaii
• Subject(s) of Art Array
• Exhibitions History 1909: State Fair, Springfield, Illinois; 3 wood carvings
  
  May 1917: Oils by Harriet Cantrall, Springfield Art Association, Springfield, Illinois
  
  1918: Exhibition of Oil Paintings by Illinois Artists, Peoria Society of Allied Arts, Peoria, Illinois
  
  1921: 3rd Annual Exhibit of Paintings by Illinois Artists, Springfield, Illinois
  
  Oregon
  
  St. Louis
  
  Western Art Association, Omaha, Nebraska
• Memberships American Association of University Women
  
  Eastern Art Association
  
  Illinois Education Association
  
  National Association of Women Artists, New York, New York
  
  National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors
  
  National Education Association
  
  St Louis Arts Club, St. Louis, Missouri
  
  St. Louis Artists Guild, St. Louis, Missouri
  
  Springfield Art Association, Springfield, Illinois
  
  Western Art Association, president 1940
  
  1911: Western Drawing and Manual Training Association; treasurer
  
  1893-1904: Western Drawing Teachers Association
• Archive(s) 1921-1932: Macbeth Gallery records, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.
• Other Occupation(s) 1898-1941: Supervisor of Art, Springfield Public Schools, Springfield, Illinois
  
  1911-1912: Treasurer, Western Drawing and Manual Training Association
  
  1920: taught The Applied Arts Summer School in Francis W. Parker School, Chicago, Illinois
  
  taught summer school with Silver Burdette Co., Evanston, Illinois
  
  taught summer school with Mentzer Bush Co., Chicago, Illinois
  
  author of magazine short stories
  
  Co-author with James C. Boudreau of Art in Daily Activities published by Mentzer Bush Co., 1929
• Website(s) her younger brother's Evans' papers
• Biography parents: Joseph Sebastian and Margaret A. Canterbury Cantrall
  
  siblings: Daisy "Dora" L. Cantrall (1870-1949) and Evans Earl Cantrall (1884-1982)
  
  Salutatorian of her high school class
  
  She was on a national art committee headed by sculptor Lorado Taft.
  
  She was known nationally and some of her paintings are in high schools