Salcia Bahnc

Artist Details

• First Name Salcia
• Maiden Name Bahnc
• Surname Bahnc
• Spouse’s Full Name Eugene Petit (1901-?), French writer
• Names and Birth Years of Children 1934: Alain Petit, born in Paris
• Birth Date November 14, 1898/6
• Birth Place Dukla, Poland
• Death Date May 1, 1976
• Death Place Bronx, New York
• Ethnicity Polish-Jewish
• Residence(s) circa 1903/6: moved from Prsemysl, Poland to New York, New York
  
  19??: moved to Boston where family had relatives; mother remarried
  
  19??: family moved to Chicago
  
  1920: 4 E. Ontario St., Chicago, Illinois
  
  1930: Brooklyn, New York
  
  September 1941: New York
  
  to 1940: Paris, France
  
  1940 to ?: Mayenne, France
  
  April 1947: 101 W. 85th St., New York, New York
• Active In through 1930:  Chicago
  
  through 1940:  France
  
  through circa 1942:   Chicago
  
  New York City
• Studio Location(s) 1930: 1218 E. 53rd St., New York, New York
• Categories Illustrator, Painter-Acrylic, Printmaker
• Training School of the Art Institute of Chicago (night classes while working as clerk in department store)
  
• Exhibitions History 1917:  fashion drawings on silk, Thurber Galleries, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1919-1929, 1943:  Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  circa 1920: Thurber Art Galleries, Chicago, Illinois
  
  May 11-June 6, 1920: The Thirty-Second Annual Exhibition of Water Colors, Pastels and Miniatures by American Artists, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; The Spirit of Music, watercolor; Allies in Misery, watercolor; The Dance, watercolor; Peasants, watercolor; Spring, watercolor
  
  January 25-February 28, 1921: The Twenty-Fifth Annual Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Dance, watercolor
  
  1921: Chicago Architectural Sketch Club, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1922:  Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
  
  February 1-March 11, 1924: Twenty-Eighth Annual Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Composition No. 1, watercolor
  
  January 30-March 10, 1925: The Twenty-Ninth Annual Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Spring, tempera
  
  1925:  Architectural League, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1925:  Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  
  1925, 1927 (solo), 1929, 1930 (solo), 1931 (solo):  Chester H. Johnson Gallery, Chicago, Illoinois
  
  1928:  Marie Sterner Gallery, New York, New York
  
  1928:  Salon de Tuileries, Paris, France
  
  1928: Society of Independent Artists, New York, New York
  
  1928: Women's World Fair Exhibition, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1929: Sur.-Independents, Paris, France
  
  1932: Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York
  
  1934: Gallerie La Jeune Peinture, Paris, France (solo)
  
  1930-1935: Salon des Tuileries, Paris, France
  
  1935, 1942: Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists Exhibition, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1935, 1950: Findlay Galleries, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1938: Quest Galleries, Chicago, Illinois (solo)
  
  1942:  Room of Chicago Art: Exhibition of Paintings by Salcia Bahnc and  Julio de Diego, Art Institute of Chicago
  
  arch 12-April 26, 1942: Forty-sixth Annual Exhibition of Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Composition
  
  1943: Albert Roullier Galleries, Chicago, Illinois (solo)
  
  1949: Bahnc Studio Exhibition, Chicago, Illinois (solo)
  
  1950: Louise and Thurman Nicholson Gallery, Chicago, Illinois (retrospective)
  
  1950: Art Gallery of the College of Jewish Studies, Chicago, Illinois (solo)
  
  1976: The Emergence of Modernism in Illinois 1914-1940, Illinois State Museum
  
  1993-1994:  New Woman in Chicago, 1910-45: Paintings from Illinois Collections, Rockford College and Illinois State Museum
  
   
• Collections Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  Illinois State Museum, Springfield, Illinois
  
  Princeton Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey
  
  The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
   
• Memberships Arts Club of Chicago
• Awards 1922, 1923:  Prize, Whitney Museum of American Art
  
  1935: Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1942:  Armstrong Prize, Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois for Composition
• Other Occupation(s) Department store clerk
  
  Fashion designer
  
  1923-1929, 1943, 1944, 1947-1953:  Teacher, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
  
  1950: teacher, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, Illinois
  
  1955-1957:  Teacher, Garrison Forest School, Garrison, Maryland
• Biography July 1913: became a naturalized US citizen at a district courthouse in Chicago
  
  In Chicago, a close friend of art critic Clarence J. Bulliet, praised her talent.
  
  Returned to America with husband on the S.S. Escambion in August 1941; she had to reapply for naturalization upon her return. Re-naturalized in April 1947.