Lydia Hess

Artist Details

• First Name Lydia
• Middle Name Purdy
• Maiden Name Hess
• Alternate Name(s) Lydia Purdy Hess Lowry
• Surname Hess
• Spouse’s Full Name Charles Doak Lowry (Ripley, Ohio July 6, 1864-?); married June 28, 1895 District Superintendent of the Chicago Public Schools he took a class from her at Art Institute of Chicago
• Names and Birth Years of Children Charles Doak, Jr. Oswin William Louise Talman Thompson Timothy Goodrich Oliver Howe
• Birth Date 1866
• Birth Place Newaygo, Michigan
• Death Date November 30, 1936
• Death Place Chicago, Illinois
• Ethnicity French Huguenot, English, German
• Residence(s) ?-1891: Chicago, Illinois
  
  302 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Illinois
  
  1891-1892: Paris, France
  
  1892-1895: Chicago, Illinois
  
  1643 Kenilworth Ave., Wilmette, Illinois
  
  ?: Evanston, Illinois
• Active In Chicago, Illinois
  
  Paris, France
• Categories Draftsman, Sculptor, Watercolorist
• Training graduated 1886: School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  Julian Atelier, Paris, France
  student of Laugé, Paris, France
  Académie Delécluse, Paris, France
  1891-?: Academie Delacluse, Paris, France; student of James Abbott McNeill Whistler
  
• Subject(s) of Art Array
• Exhibitions History 1892: Salon de la Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France: Ena Hutchinson, oil on canvas
  
  1893: World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Illinois: Ena Hutchinson, oil on canvas
  
  1893: Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Ena Hutchinson, oil on canvas
  
  1895: Fourteenth Annual Exhibition of the Palette Club, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: In a Chute of the Ohio
  
  1898, 1900: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1933: Shawnee Country Club, Wilmette, Illinois
• Collections Orchard Lawn, Mineral Point Historical Society, Mineral Point, Wisconsin
  
  Richard Norton Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
• Other Occupation(s) 1892-1895: Instructor, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1892-1895: assistant to sculptor Lorado Taft, Chicago, Illinois
• Biography father: George Henry Hess II  left New York to seek a fortune in lumber from Michigan’s virgin forest; built sawmill on Hess Lake; family later moved to Chicago
  
  mother: Mary Ireland Howe Hess