Laura Van Pappelendam

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  • Laura
  • Peternellie
  • students called her "Miss Van"
  • Van Pappelendam
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  • February 10, 1883
  • Donnelson, Iowa or Keokuk, Iowa
  • February 10, 1974
  • Norwalk, California
  • Dutch-American
  • raised in Keokuk, Iowa

    ?: 5339 Dorchester Ave, Chicago, Illinois

    with John Ulrich Nef, Jr. and wife Elinor Nef, as caretaker of their home and companion to her mother

    late 1930s-early 1940s: spent time in Keokuk, Iowa caring for aunt and ill stepmother

    summers 1920-1927: Santa Fe, New Mexico (usually with Olive Rush)

    summers 1950-1955: Santa Fe, New Mexico

    1962-late 1966: Tucson, Arizona

    late 1966: Pico Rivera, California

    ?-1974: Downey, California
  • Chicago, Illinois

    Santa Fe, New Mexico

    Tucson, Arizona
  • Painter-Oil, Printmaker, Sculptor, Watercolorist
  • 1902: graduated Keokuk, Iowa high school
    1904-?: School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; student of Nicholas Roerich, Karl Buehr, Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida (1911); student of George Bellows (1919)
    1909: graduated with a teaching certificate, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; had decided in 3rd year that she should prepare to teach art
    June 18, 1926: received BA in Art Education, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
    1929: PhD, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
    1916: Provincetown, Massachusetts; Student of Charles Hawthorne & David Ericson
    1930: student of Diego Rivera, Mexico
  • :  1917: Colorado

    1918-1919, 1941, 1949, 1956-1957: California

    summers 1920-1927: Santa Fe, New Mexico

    1920-1927: Arizona and Utah

    summers 1930s: Mexico

    1937: with Elinor Nef

    summers 1949-1954: Santa Fe, New Mexico
  • Array
  • 1917-1944: Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (19 times)

    November 14-24, 1918: Oil Paintings by Illinois Artists, Peoria Society of Allied Arts, Peoria, Illinois

    1918-1931: Annual Exhibition of Oil Paintings & Sculpture by American Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (10 times)

    1921: Twenty-Fifth Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Old Spanish Porch

    1921: Chicago Society of Arts exhibition

    April 18-30, 1926: The Art Club: First Annual Student Art Exhibition, Renaissance Society, Chicago, Illinois

    1926: Sesquicentennial International Exposition, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    1926: The Arts Club: First Annual Student Art Exhibition, Renaissance Society, Chicago, Illinois

    1927: Chicago Galleries Association, Chicago, Illinois [solo]

    1929: South Side Artists Association; Yellow Walls

    1929, 1930: International Water Color Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

    July 24-October 12, 1930: Paintings by Jean Crawford Adams, Laura Van Pappelendum, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

    1930: Paintings by Jean Crawford Adams, Emil Armin, Laura van Pappelendam, Frank J Gavencky, Rudolph Ingerele and Charles Edward Mullin, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

    1931:  Forty-fourth Annual Exhibition of Oil Paintings & Sculpture by American Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Magnolia Blossom

    1932:  Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Banana and Geranium Plants

    1933: Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Long Haired Cactus

    1933, 1934: A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings & Sculpture, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

    1936: Garfield Park Art Gallery, Chicago, Illinois [solo]

    1942:  Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; At the End of the Porch

    1957-1961: U.S. Embassy Residence, Dublin, Ireland

    1995-1996: Autry Museum of Western Heritage

    1996: Owings-Dewey Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico

    1996: Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico

    1996: Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma

    1996-1997: Museum of Art, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah

    Academy of Allied Arts, New York, New York

    Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

    City Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri

    Delphic Studios, New York, New York

    Findley Galleries, Chicago, Illinois

    Illinois Academy of Fine Arts

    Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, Illinois

    Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri

    Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, New Mexico

    National College of Art, Dublin, Ireland

    New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, New Jersey

    Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York

    Riverside Museum, New York, New York

    Rockefeller Center, New York, New York

    Roullier Galleries, Chicago, Illinois

    South Side Art Association, Chicago, Illinois

    John Vanderpoel Memorial Art Gallery, Beverly, Illinois

    St. Louis, Missouri

    Cedar Rapids, Iowa

    Columbus, Indiana

    Toronto, Canada

    Memphis, Tennessee

    Evansville, Indiana

    Omaha, Nebraska

    Scranton, Pennsylvania

    Edinboro, Scotland

    Solo exhibits in Keokuk, Iowa and Madison, Wisconsin, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin

    Women Painters of America, Wichita, Kansas

    Women’s International Exposition, Detroit, Michigan
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

    Bridges Collection, Chicago, Illinois

    Walter Brewster

    Curtis B. Camp

    City of Chicago for the Encouragement of Local Art, Chicago, Illinois

    Barton Faist, Chicago, Illinois

    Illinois State Museum, Springfield, Illinois

    Lee County Historical Society, Keokuk, Iowa

    New Trier High School, Wilmette, Illinois

    Oak Park Art League, Oak Park, Illinois

    University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  • Becker, Colleen. “Laura Van Pappelendam,” in Rima Lunin Schultz and Adele Hast, eds. Women Building Chicago, 1790-1990: A Biographical Dictionary. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2001. D’Emilio, Sandra. “Laura Van Pappelendam: A Lively and Generous Spirit,” Antiques and Fine Art, March-April 1991. Gilmore, Roger. Over a Century, a History of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1866-1981. Jacobson, J. Z. ed. Art of Today: Chicago 1933, 1932. Kovinick, Phil and Marian Yoshiki-Kovinick. An Encyclopedia of Women Artists of the American West, University of Texas Press, 1998, pages 316-317 Trenton, Patricia ed. Independent Spirits: Women Painters of the American West, University of California Press, 1995, pages 156, 164, 171, 172.
  • Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

    Chicago Galleries Association, Chicago, Illinois

    Chicago Society of Artists, Chicago, Illinois

    Illinois Academy of Fine Arts, Chicago, Illinois

    Renaissance Society, Chicago, Illinois

    South Side Art Association, Chicago, Illinois
  • 1917, 1918, 1919: William O. Goodman Prize, Art Students League Exhibition, Chicago, Illinois

    1921: Chicago Society of Artists

    1921, 1928: Honorable Mention, Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

    1929: Recognition Prize, South Side Artists Association, Chicago, Illinois

    1931: William Merritt French Memorial Gold Medal, Annual Exhibition of Oil Paintings & Sculpture by American Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

    1932: Mr. and Mrs. Jule F. Brower Prize, Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

    1933: Mr. and Mrs. Frank G. Logan Prize, Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

    1936: silver medal, Chicago Society of Artists, Chicago, Illinois

    1942: Clyde M. Carr prize, Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

    1942: Women Artists Salon of Chicago Prize; Blue Flower Pots

    1951: Honorable Mention, Alumni Association of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; The Bailey Place on the Mississippi River
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, including Ryerson and Burnham Libraries John U. Nef Papers, University of Chicago Special Collections, Chicago, Illinois
  • 1909-1956: Professor of Painting, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois          [taught still-life painting, pottery, mechanical drawing, design, construction, life drawing]

    1919-1924: teacher, College of Education, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

    1924-1948: Art instructor, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

    summers: instructor, Illinois State Normal School
  • page on Women Out West website
  • Parents:  John Bernard and Elizabeth Alice “Alice” McCullough Van Pappelendam; he opened a real estate and insurance business in Keokuk

    Siblings:   2 younger ones

    involved in creation of the Renaissance Society, Chicago, Illinois; served on board of directors 1915-1950s

    involved in creation of the Department of Art, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

    Quaker

    “A short, energetic Dutch woman, she vibrated with enthusiasm–for the sights of nature, for the work of her students, for her own painting, and for the paintings of others.  Her blond hair was usually tied around with a light blue ribbon. She smiled a great deal.  She was slightly absent-minded, forgetting where she had stored all her paintings, for example. She had found nooks and crannies everywhere in the Museum (in the bases for the great Blackstone Hall equestrian figures, for example). She could often be seen carrying a half-finished canvas, sometimes being carried along by it in the sharp winds off the lake, toward the I.C. station and her one-room abode on the south side. There (she told us) she would prop her current painting just beyond the foot of her bed where it could be seen and studied first thing when she awoke. Her criticisms in class were kindly phrased but unrelenting. She had a painterly vision of the world, took student effort seriously, was alive to all that was going on and drove us toward Matisse and Picasso, the cubists, futurists, and expressionists. Her judgments] were aided by small diagrams penciled on a pad in explanation of some compositional point she wished to make. She was a gifted raconteur: her account of adventures in Mexico, the bus rides with chickens on her lap, her cheerful congratulations with natives, all gained in richness as she developed her narrative. I never met anyone who didn’t respect Laura Van and there were many who loved her.  I can’t refrain from one anecdote from among the many that must still be extant in her students’ memories. One day when I was firmly embedded in the Institute hierarchy and thus privileged to go where ordinary visitors were not permitted, I took a quick tour of the temporary exhibition galleries on my way from one part of the School to the other. The Chicago painting and sculpture show was hung but not yet open. Laura Van had won one of the prizes. But on this pre-opening morning, there she was, a loaded palette in her hand, repainting a part of her prize-winning entry. Something in it hadn’t satisfied her, though it must have looked pretty good to the jury.”