Minnie Neebe

Artist Details

• First Name Minnie
• Middle Name D
• Maiden Name Harms
• Alternate Name(s) nee Wilhelmine Charlotte Harms
• Surname Neebe
• Spouse’s Full Name Louis Alexander Neebe (born Philadelphia 1873; artist – newspaper lithography, cartoons
• Previous Spouse(s) n/a
• Birth Date December 25, 1873
• Birth Place Chicago, Illinois
• Death Date May 26, 1936
• Death Place Chicago, Illinois
• Residence(s) 23 Clybourne, Chicago, Illinois??
  
  1914, 1917: 1316 Clybourne Ave., Chicago, Illinois
• Active In Chicago, Illinois
• Categories Muralist, Painter-Oil
• Training circa 1904: J. Francis Smith Art Academy, Chicago, Illinois; student of Walter Ufer
  1905-1906, 1908 evenings: School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Student of Charles F. Brown, Frederick Fursman, Wellington Reyolds
  1910 evenings: Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, Chicago, Illinois
  1913: School of the Art Institute of Chicago
  191501916: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; studied ceramics
  Student of Louis Neebe
  student of Lorser Feitelson
  1916: Cape Cod School of Art, Provincetown, Massachusetts; Student of Charles Hawthorne
  1916: Provincetown, Massachusetts; student of George Senseney and Ambrose Webster
  1916 Sundays: Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, Chicago, Illinois
  1926 Saturdays: Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, Chicago, Illinois
  Fine Arts Academy of Provincetown, Massachusetts (Frederick Frary Fursman’s school)
  
• Relevant Travel summers in Saugatuck, Michigan and at Cape Cod School of Art in Provincetown, Massachusetts
  
  Middle East
  
  Far East
  
  Pacific Coast
  
  Mexico
• Subject(s) of Art Array
• Exhibitions History February 3-March 1, 1914: Eighteenth Annual Exhibition of Works by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: Pokagon
  
  February 8-March 5, 1916: Twentieth Annual Exhibition of Works by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois The Ghetto
  
  February 1-March 4, 1917: Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Chesco’s; Flowers
  
  1917, 1918, 1924: The Society of Independent Artists
  
  February 14-March 17, 1918: Twenty-Second Annual Exhibition of Works by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: Sunshine
  
  1918: Annual Exhibition of Watercolors, Pastels and Miniatures, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  February 13-March 30, 1919: Twenty-Third Annual Exhibition of Works by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: Bend of the River; Sunflowers
  
  November 6-December 10, 1919: Thirty-Second Annual Exhibition of American Oil Paintings and Sculpture, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: Tea Time
  
  January 29-March 3, 1920: Twenty-Fourth Annual Exhibition of Works by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: The Open Country; Wild Flowers; Autumn
  
  1920: Exhibition by Chicago Artists,  Memphis Brooks Museum, Memphis, Tennessee
  
  1920, 1921, 1926, 1928, 1929, 1935: Chicago Society of Artists, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1921: Archibal Harris & Co., Accountants, Chicago, Illinois
  
  January 25-February 28, 1921: Twenty-Fifth Annual Exhibition of Works by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: Fall Symphony; The Old Mill; Queen Anne’s Lace
  
  January 26-February 28, 1922: Twenty-Sixth Annual Exhibition of Works by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: The Red Tree; Wisconsin Fields
  
  1922-?: Chicago No-Jury Society of Artists, Chicago, Illinois
  
  February 1- March 11, 1923: Twenty-Seventh Annual Exhibition of Works by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: Villa Schrauth’s; First Snow; My Studio; The Ravine
  
  circa 1920s: Neo-Arlimuse Society, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1925: Woman’s World’s Fair
  
  1925: Chicago Woman’s Aid Society, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1926: Chicago Galleries Association, Chicago, Illinois [solo]
  
  1926: West End Woman’s Club, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930: Chicago Galleries Association, Chicago, Illinois
  
  February 3-March 8, 1927: Thirty-First Annual Exhibition of Works by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: Provincetown Boats
  
  1928: Inaugural Exhibit, Illinois State Museum, Springfield, Illinois
  
  1928: Frederick Spiegel Gallery, Orlando, Florida
  
  1928, 1929, 1930: Oak Park Art League, Oak Park, Illinois
  
  1929: Artists of Chicago & Vicinity, Illinois Club
  
  1929: Beidler Gallery, Illinois Women’s Athletic Club,
  
  1930: Annual Exhibition of Oil Paintings & Sculpture by American Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1930: Karcher Hotel, Waukegan, Illinois
  
  1930: Midland Club, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1931: Ninety and Nine Association
  
  1932: Portraits of Chicago Artists by Chicago Artists, Increase Robinson Studio Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1932: Little Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
  
  January 28-March 20, 1932:  Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: Santa Monica; Sunflowers
  
  1932: Annual Exhibition of Watercolors, Pastels and Miniatures, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1933: Visitors Tourist Bureau, Progressive Chicago Artists, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1936: Memorial Exhibition, with Chicago No-Jury Society of Artists annual exhibition, Chicago, Illinois [solo]
  
  1993-1994: New Woman in Chicago, 1910-45: Paintings from Illinois Collections, Rockford College, Rockford, Illinois and Illinois State Museum,
  
  Chicago Society of Artists Exhibition, Chicago, Illinois
  
  Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
• Collections Chicago City Commission for the Encouragement of Local Art
  
  Chicago Public Schools
• Publications Bulliet, C.J. “Artists of Chicago, Past and Present: No. 9 Minnie Harms Neebe,” Chicago Daily News, April 20, 1935
• Memberships Art Institute of Chicago Alumni Association,
  
  Chicago No-Jury Society of Artists, Chicago, Illinois
  
  Chicago Society of Artists, Chicago, Illinois
  
  Illinois Academy of Fine Arts
  
  San Diego Art Association
• Other Occupation(s) Art teacher
  
  lecturer
• Website(s) biography on Modernism in the New City website
  
  page on Illinois Historical Art Project website
  
  page on Richard Norton Gallery website
  
  page on Meart0 website
• Biography friend of Carl Sandburg, George Bellows, Leon Kroll