Louise Woodruff

Artist Details

• First Name Louise
• Maiden Name Lentz
• Surname Woodruff
• Spouse’s Full Name George Woodruff (Plainfield, Illinois May 25, 1881-July 24, 1946 Chicago, Illinois); siblings: Frederick W. Woodruff, Joliet, Illinois Florence Woodruff Gertrude Woodruff Keig banker graduated University of Michigan and Yale University 1903:  admitted to bar president, Illinois Bankers’ Association president, Bankers’ Club of Chicago president, Illinois State Chamber of Commerce President of First National Bank of Joliet, Joliet, Illinois 1921-circa 1930: President of National Bank of the Republic, Chicago, Illinois 1928: Assistant Western Manager, Republican National Committee 1928: president, Laymen’s Committee of Presbyterian Churches treasurer, A Century of Progress Exposition first president, Chicago Grand Opera Company; co-founder member of several financial and trade missions to China, South America, Europe
• Previous Spouse(s) n/a
• Birth Date November 28, 1891
• Birth Place Roanoke, Virginia
• Death Date 1956
• Death Place Joliet, Illinois
• Residence(s) grew up in Joliet, Illinois
  
  Chicago, Illinois
  
  1929-?: 1500 N. Lake Shore Dr., Chicago, Illinois (penthouse; 18 rooms)
  
  1946: 179 Lake Shore Dr., Chicago, Illinois
• Active In Chicago, Illinois
• Categories Sculptor
• Training Finch School, New York, New York
  Columbia University, New York, New York
  School of the Art Institute of Chicago; student of Lorado Taft and Charles Mulligan
  student of Antoine Bourdelle, Paris, France
  Florence, Italy
  
• Relevant Travel 1921: Japan, China, Hong Kong [sailed with husband on Katori Maru, on August 5, 1921 from Seattle]
• Subject(s) of Art Array
• Exhibitions History 1925-1935: Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (7 times)
  
  1928, 1930: Annual Exhibition of Oil Paintings & Sculpture by American Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  March 24-April 15, 1931: Festival of Religious Art: Religious Art by Artists of Chicago and Environs, The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1933, 1934: Fountain: Science Advancing Mankind, for A Century of Progress World’s Fair, Chicago, Illinois
• Collections Joliet Township High School, Joliet, Illinois
• Publications Ganz, Cheryl, “Science Advancing Mankind,” Technology and Culture, vol. 41, no. 4, John Hopkins University Press, 2000. Ricker, Jewett E. ed. Sculpture at a Century of Progress, 1933. Staudenmaier, John M. “Perils of Progress Talk: Some Historical Considerations,”
• Memberships National Association of Women Artists, New York, New York
  
  boards of several Chicago civic organizations
  
   
• Website(s) page on Wikipedia