Mildred Waltrip

Artist Details

• First Name Mildred
• Surname Waltrip
• Birth Date 1911
• Birth Place Nebo, near Madisonville, Kentucky
• Death Date February 21, 2004
• Death Place Tulsa, Oklahoma
• Active In Chicago, Illinois
• Categories Illustrator, Lithographer, Muralist
• Training Chicago Public Schools, Chicago, Illinois
  1926-1933:   Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  Student of Fernand Leger, Paris, France
  
• Exhibitions History July 28-October 9, 1938: Art for the Public by Chicago Artists of the Federal Art Project Works Administration, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Mexican Scene, watercolor; Ponies; Claude; sketches for American Characters mural; Information Service poster
  
  April 12-May 2, 1942: War Art, The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; sketch for History of Aviation mural, watercolor
• Collections Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
  
  Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan
  
  Museum of Modern Art,. New York, New York
  
  National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
  
  Ravinia School, Highland Park, Illinois
  
  Scott Air Force Base, O'Fallon, Illinois
  
  Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
  
   
• Publications McKinsey, Kristan H. “The Perseverance of Mildred Waltrip,” Illinois Heritage, July/August 2018
• Awards Mural commissions for FAP and later:
  
  Congress Hotel
  
  Cook County Hospital
  
  Henrici’s Restaurant
  
  Merchandise Mart
  
  Chicago Park Board Administration building
  
  Gibson Hotel, Cincinnati Ohio
  
  Hatch School, Oak Park, Illinois
  
  Ravinia School, Highland Park, Illinois
• Other Occupation(s) FAP/WPA Mural Artist
  
  1936-1937: Designer/commercial artist, Marshall Field, Chicago, Illinois
  
  Graphic designer, posters for Brookfield Zoo, Brookfield, Illinois
  
  Illustrator, children's books
• Biography disabled by polio