Pauline Palmer

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  • Pauline
  • Lennards
  • Mrs. Albert E. Palmer
  • Palmer
  • Albert E. Palmer (?-1920); physician; wealthy married May 21, 1891; after marriage, she started painting full-time
  • n/a
  • n/a
  • 1867
  • McHenry, Illinois
  • August 15, 1938
  • Trondheim, Norway
  • grew up in McHenry, Illinois and Milwaukee, Wisconsin

    1901: The Lessing, Chicago, Illinois

    1908: 721 Lincoln Ave, Chicago, Illinois

    1912: 2658 Seminary Avenue, Chicago, Illinois

    1917-?: Tree Studio, Chicago, Illinois

    1921: 4 E. Ohio Street, Chicago, Illinois

    after 1920: Provincetown, Massachusetts
  • Chicago, Illinois

    1915-?: summers in Provincetown, Massachusetts
  • probably after 1904: Tree Studios, Chicago, Illinois; described as “a Parisian model” and “the quaintest studio in the city” and “combination den and work room”
  • Painter-Oil
  • McHenry High School, McHenry, Illinois
    private teacher in McHenry, Illinois
    1880-?: convent school in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
    School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Student of William M. Chase
    1900-1903 (or 1899-1902): Académie Colarossi, Paris, France student of Gustav Courtois and Académie de la Grande Chaumière, student of Lucien Simon
    1900-1902: École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France, Student of René Prinet
    student of Collin, Richard E. Miller
    Provincetown, Massachusetts;
    Student of Charles Hawthorne
  • California

    Austria

    France

    Germanty

    Italy

    Scandinavian countries

    summers in Europe

    summer 1903: Spain

    1910-1920: winters in Charleston, South Carolina

    1915-?: summers at seashore in Provincetown, Cape Cod

    summer 1938: England and Scandinavia (with sister Marie)
  • Array
  • 1896-1938 (except 1934) at least one exhibit each year AIC

    1893: World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Illinois

    1896: Cincinnati, Ohio

    1896, 1897: Art Students League, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

    December 1897-January 1898: Society of Western Artists Second Annual Exhibition, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan

    1898: Trans-Mississippi Exposition, Omaha, Nebraska

    1899, 1908, 1912-1932: Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    1899-1937: Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (27 times)

    1900-1913: Annual Exhibition of Water Colors, Pastels and Miniatures by American Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (5 times)

    1901: Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, New York

    June 23-24, 1902: auction at Barker & Williams Auction Rooms, Chicago, Illinois

    1903-1906, 1911: Paris Salon, Paris, France

    1904: Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, Missouri

    January 1908: Special Exhibition of Water Colors by the Chicago Water Color Club, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan

    January 20-February 29, 1908: 103rd Annual Exhibition of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: The White Shawl, oil

    November 15-December 13, 1909: Paintings by Elizabeth Wentworth Roberts and the Chicago Water Color Club, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan

    1911: Expositione de Belle Arti, Naples, Italy

    1911: Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Meditation; The Old Tree, Giverny, France; Devotion; The Old Mill, Giverny, France; The Old Curiosity Shop, Venice; The Toilet; In the Garden

    1912: First Annual Exhibition, Art Association of Charleston, Illinois

    1912: Annual Exhibition of Water Colors, Pastels and Miniatures by American Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; San Giorgio, Venice, Italy; Ponte Pietra, Verona, Italy; A Bit of Venice; In the Austrian Tyrol; A Daughter of the Tyrol; Sunset, Venice; Repose; all tempera

    March 24-April 8, 1913: Paintings by Pauline Palmer, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; 68 Impressionist portraits, genre scenes and landscapes

    March 14-?,1914: The Thirtieth Semi-Annual Exhibition of Paintings by American Artists, Decatur Public Library; An English Rose

    1915: Panama-Pacific Exposition, San Francisco, California

    1918, 1921: Exhibition of Oil Paintings by Illinois Artists, Peoria Society of Allied Arts, Peoria, Illinois

    April-May 1921: Seventh Annual Exhibition of Paintings by American Artists, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan

    National Association of Women Artists, New York, New York

    1927: Austin, Oak Park and River Forest Art League, Oak Park, Illinois

    1927: American Art Annual, The Art institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Against the Light

    1927: Paintings by Pauline Palmer, Carson Pirie Scott Galleries, Chicago, Illinois [solo]; Against the Light

    1928: Woman's World's Fair, Chicago, Illinois

    1928: The Second Exhibition of the Illinois Women Painters, Illinois Women’s Athletic Club, Chicago, Illinois; Against the Light

    1933, 1934: A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings & Sculpture, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

    1937: Arts Club, Chicago, Illinois

    1939: Memorial Exhibit of Paintings by Pauline Palmer, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Against the Light

    1939: Union League Club, Chicago, Illinois

    1950:  Pauline Palmer memorial exhibition, Chicago Galleries Association, Chicago, Illinois; Against the Light

    1971-1972: Painters and Sculptors in Illinois: 1820-1945, Illinois Arts Council [traveling]; Against the Light

    1976: Illinois Landscape Art 1830-1975, Lakeview Museum, Peoria, Illinois

    1977: Currents of Expansion: Painting in the Midwest, Saint Louis Art Museum; Against the Light

    1980-1981: American Art in the Union League Club of Chicago. A Centennial Exhibition, Union League Club of Chicago [traveling]; Against the Light

    1984: Pauline Palmer: American Impressionist, Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences, Peoria, Illinois

    1999: Capturing Sunlight: The Art of Tree Studios, Chicago Cultural Center; Against the Light

    2015: Impressionism Into Modernism, Peoria Riverfront Museum, Peoria, Illinois: In the Garden, oil on canvas
  • Arche Club, Chicago, Illinois

    Art Association, Muncie, Indiana

    Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

    Brauer Museum of Art, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, Indiana

    Bridges Collection, Chicago, Illinois

    Chicago Woman’s Club, Chicago, Illinois

    Delgado Museum of Art

    Peoria Riverfront Museum, Peoria, Illinois

    Provincetown Art Association, Provincetown, Illinois

    Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, Illinois

    San Diego Gallery of Fine Art, San Diego, California

    M. Christine Schwartz Collection, Northbrook, Illinois

    Springfield Art Association, Springfield, Illinois

    Union League Club, Chicago, Illinois

    West End Women's Club, Chicago, Illinois

    Municipal Art League of Chicago, Illinois

    Vanderpoel Art Museum, Chicago, Illinois
  • Bulliet, C.J. Artists of Chicago: Past and Present. 1936. Martin. Art in the Union League Club of Chicago. Schulze, Paul. "Chicago's 'Painter Lady'," Bulletin of the Union League Club, September 1, 1939. Soady, Fred W. "A Brief History of the Artist," Pauline Palmer: American Impressionist, 1984. Sokol, David M.  "Pauline Palmer," Women Building Chicago 1790-1990: A Biographical Dictionary. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001. "Woman Heads Artists Society in Chicago," Fort Dearborn Magazine, 1920.
  • Art Institute of Chicago Alumni Association; president

    Arts Club of Chicago; director

    Chicago Society of Artists, Chicago, Illinois; 1918-1920: President (first woman president)

    Chicago Municipal Art League, Chicago, Illinois

    National Association of Women Artists, New York, New York

    North Shore Art League, Winnetka, Illinois

    Chicago Water Color Club, Chicago, Illinois

    Chicago Woman's Salon, Chicago, Illinois; charter member

    Chicago Galleries Association, Chicago, Illinois

    Chicago Painters & Sculptors, Chicago, Illinois

    Grand Central Gallery, New York, New York

    Provincetown Art Association, Provincetown, Massachusetts

    Society of Western Artists, Chicago, Illinois

    Nike Club

    Kilo Club, Chicago, Illinois

    Drama League of Chicago, Illinois

    MacDowell Society, Chicago chapter, Chicago, Illinois
  • 1904: Bronze Medal, Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, Missouri

    1907: Marshall Field Prize, Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

    1907: Young Fortnightly Prize, Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

    1907: ?, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

    1914: Thompson Prize, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

    1915: First Prize, Society of Western Artists,

    1915: Prize, Chicago Arts Club,

    1916: Honorable Mention, Annual Exhibition of Oil Paintings & Sculpture by American Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

    1916, 1926: Rosenwald Purchase Fund Prize, Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

    1917: Carr Prize, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

    1918: Clyde Carr Prize, "Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago Artists," Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

    1920: Silver Medal, Chicago Society of Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

    1920: Butler Prize, "Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago Artists," Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

    1924: Fine Arts Building Prize, Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  • taught in Chicago Public Schools while a student at Art Institute of Chicago

    Pauline Palmer, Inc. (demonstrated or taught "scientific" exercises for the face)

     
  • page on Illinois Historical Art Project website

    information on M. Christine Schwartz Collection website
  • Parents:   German immigrants (circa 1848) Nicholas and Franciska Spangemacher Lennards; he was merchant

    Siblings:  Marie and ?

    often served as a juror and was an officer of many art organizations after 1902