Jessie Botke

Artist Details

• First Name Jessie
• Middle Name Hazel
• Maiden Name Arms
• Alternate Name(s) Jessie Hazel Arms Botke
• Surname Botke
• Spouse’s Full Name Cornelius Botke [caption id="attachment_1784" align="alignright" width="300"] Cornelius and Jessie Arms Botke[/caption] 1915: married in Leonia, New Jersey
• Names and Birth Years of Children 1916: William
• Birth Date May 27, 1883
• Birth Place Chicago, Illinois
• Death Date October 2 or 4, 1971
• Death Place Santa Paula or Ventura, California
• Residence(s) before 1911, 1915-1919: Chicago, Illinois
  
  1911-1915: New York, New York
  
  1919-1923, 1924-1927: Carmel, California
  
  1923-1924: Europe
  
  1927-1929: Los Angeles, California
  
  1929-1971: Wheeler Canyon, Santa Paula, California
  
  Paris
  
  Holland
  
  southern California
• Studio Location(s) 4542 E 57th St., Hyde Park, Chicago, Illinois 1927-?: California
• Categories Gouache, Illustrator, Muralist, Painter-Oil, Printmaker, Watercolorist
• Training 1897-1898, 1902-1905: School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  summer 1903: Saugatuck, Michigan; student of Johansen
  summer 1904: Ogunquit, Maine; student of Charles Woodbury
  New York, New York; student of Albert Herter
   
  
• Relevant Travel 1909: to Europe
  
  1923-1923: Europe
• Subject(s) of Art Array
• Exhibitions History 1916-1926: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1918: Exhibit of Oil Paintings by Illinois Artists, Peoria Society of Allied Arts, Peoria, Illinois
  
  1919: Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  
  1924: Salon de la Societie des Artistes Francais, Paris, France
  
  1925:  Paintings by Cornelius and Jessie Arms Botke, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1925,1933: National Association of Women Artists,
  
  1928: Southwest Exposition,
  
  1930: Vose Galleries, Boston, Massachusetts (solo)
  
  1930: Paul Elder Gallery, San Francisco, California
  
  1930, 1962: Grand Central Art Galleries, New York, New York
  
  1935, 1936: Academy of Western Painters,
  
  1938: Sanity in Art, Chicago,
  
  1939: Golden Gate Exposition, San Francisco, California
  
  1943: Grand Central Art Galleries, New York, New York (solo)
  
  September 5 - October 5, 1944: Annual Exhibition, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California; Egrets, oil and gold leaf on board
  
  1971-1972: Painters and Sculptors in Illinois, 1820-1945, traveling exhibition organized by the Illinois Arts Council
  
  1980-1981: American Art in the Union League Club of Chicago, A Centennial Exhibition, traveling exhibition organized by the Union League Club
  
  December 2006-March 4, 2007: Artistic Journeys: The Botke Family, Ventura County Museum of History & Art, Ventura, California
  
  2012: Inner Visions: Women Artists of California The Irvine Museum, Irvine, California
  
  California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California
  
  Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
  
  Los Angeles Museum, Los Angeles, California
  
  National Academy of Design, New York, New York
  
  Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
  
  Stendahl Gallery, Los Angeles, California
• Collections Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  Bakersfield High School, Bakersfield, California
  
  Fleischer Museum, Scottsdale, Arizona
  
  Gardena High School, Los Angeles, California
  
  The Irvine Museum, Irvine, California
  
  Los Angeles County College
  
  Mills College, Oakland, California
  
  Nebraska Art Association
  
  Santa Paula High School, Santa Paula, California
  
  University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
• Publications

  Trenton, Patricia and Deborah Epstein Solon. Birds, Boughs & Blossoms: Jessie Arms Botke, 1883-1971.  William A. Karges Fine Art, 1995.

  Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940".
  "An Encyclopedia of Women Artists of the American West" by Phil Kovinick and Marian Yoshiki-Kovinick.
  Paul Sternberg, Sr., "Art by American Women"
• Memberships California Art Club
  
  California Water Color Society
  
  Foundation of Western Art
  
  Grand Central Gallery Association
  
  National Association of Women Artists, New York, New York
• Awards 1918: Bronze Medal, Exhibit of Oil Paintings by Illinois Artists, Peoria Society of Allied Arts,
  
  Martin B. Cohn Prize, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1917: Englewood Woman's Club, Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1919: Chicago Society of Artists Silver Medal, Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1920: Fifteenth Annual Exhibition of Paintings by American Artists, City Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri; Ducks
  
  1920, 1926: Shaffer Prize, Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1925, 1926, 1928:Prize, National Association of Women Artists, New York, New York
  
  1928: Southwest Exposition,
  
  1933: Mary Brady Tucker Prize for Decorative Painting, National Association of Women Artists, NYC,
  
  1935, 1936: Academy of Western Painters, Los Angeles,
  
  1938: Sanity in Art, Chicago,
• Other Occupation(s) before 1909: book illustrator
  
  designed tapestries, friezes and murals for Albert at Herter Looms, a tapestry design and manufacturing firm, New York, New York
  
  1906-?: paintings for Santa Fe Railway Company, Chicago, Illinois
  
   
• Website(s) page on The Historical Collections Council of California Art on website 
  
  Jesse Arms Botke Gallery website
  
  short biography on globalgallery.com website
  
  Wikipedia page
• Biography Daughter of William Aldis and Martha Cornell Arms.  She began her studies at the Art Institute of Chicago before starting high school, then enrolled full-time after high school graduation.
  
  Botke was also an activist, marching up New York’s Fifth Avenue in 1911 and 1912 in the suffragette parade. She also strongly advocated for the rights and representation of women artists.