Jennie Siporin

Artist Details

• First Name Jennie
• Surname Siporin
• Spouse’s Full Name Hyman Siporin; Polish immigrant; married in New York, New York
• Names and Birth Years of Children Hadassah (circa 1920-?); professional artist Susanna “Shoshanna” Mitchell (New York, New York 1910-1976); professional Social Realist artist; chairman of the Fine Arts Department, Brandeis University +1
• Birth Date circa 1890
• Birth Place Lodz, Poland
• Death Date 1973
• Ethnicity Polish Jew
• Residence(s) circa 1890-1906: Lodz, Poland
  
  1906-?: New York, New York
  
  by 1917-?: Chicago, Illinois
• Active In Chicago, Illinois
• Categories Watercolorist
• Exhibitions History Annual Exhibition of Chicago and Vicinity, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  June 5-August 17, 1947: 51^st Annual Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Lidice, watercolor
  
  July 12-August 8, 1947: Representative Works by Chicago Artists, The Renaissance Society, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1959: Fisher Hall Gallery, Chicago, Illinois [solo]
  
  1959-January 6, 1960: Jewish Education Building, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1976:  The Emergence of Modernism in Illinois 1914-40, Illinois State Museum, Springfield, Illinois; Tevyah – Toivye der Milchiker (The Milk Man), 1940, watercolor on paper; The Water Carrier, circa 1940 watercolor on paper
  
   
  
   
• Biography came to art later in life