Laura Van Pappelendam (1883-1974)
Taos, circa 1925
oil on canvas
Collection of Oak Park Art League
24 x 20 inches
Artist Details
Laura
Peternellie
students called her "Miss Van"
Van Pappelendam
n/a
n/a
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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
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.”