Susan Frackelton

Artist Details

• First Name Susan
• Middle Name Stuart
• Maiden Name Goodrich
• Surname Frackelton
• Spouse’s Full Name Richard George Frackelton (England November 10, 1841-March 21, 1916 WIsconsin); came to open business importing crockery, china and glassware; married July 9, 1869; divorced 1899 FindaGrave has “A Scholar/A Gentleman/son of William” first part on grave marker under “R.G.FRACKELTON”. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/91112199/richard-george-frackelton listed as “china and crockery dealer” May 1881 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/37816526/ He published a book?, Photography on Glass and China,  which she advertised on page ? of her Tried by Fire: A Work on China-Painting published in 1886.  Below his name as author is “formerly of London and Paris;” next page is ad for Frackelton Decorating Works at 119 Wisconsin St., Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He wrote “Spanish Brickmaking in Pre-Historic America,” in Brick, vol. 1, No. 1, July 1894.   pp. 40-42. He wrote “A Descriptive Guide to the Cream City: Practical Hints and General Information,” in The City of Milwaukee: Guide to the Cream City for Visitors and Citizens,
• Previous Spouse(s) n/a
• Names and Birth Years of Children William (June 24, 1870-1943); dentist in Milwaukee until 1893, then to Sheridan, Wyoming; went to Alaska in 1897 to look for gold; president of Wyoming Mutual Investment Co. 1913-1914; first president of Wyoming State Board of Dental Examiners 1905-1913 Albert (July 29, 1875-1947) dentist; in 1909, married Grace H. (Nebraska 1884-1937); kids William Hamilton Frackelton (1911-2002) and Jane S. Frackelton (1914-1918) Felix (1878-1893) drowned in Milwaukee River Gladys Seely/Seeley (1888-1973); married Herman Gastrell Seely (1892-1958) Chicago Daily News financial editor; listed as “Gladys Frackelton” in 1911 Chicago Blue Book, as member of the Chicago Woman’s Club; also 1914 and 1918
• Birth Date June 5, 1848
• Birth Place Milwaukee, Wisconsin
• Death Date April 14, 1932
• Death Place Kenilworth, Illinois
• Residence(s) 1848-?: 90 Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (1857-58 Milwaukee County Directory)
  
  1890: 695 Cass St., Milwaukee, Wisconsin (directory lists Susan, her husband, her eldest son William)
  
  ?-1899: 210 Ogden Ave. (N. Cass St. and E. Ogden Ave.), Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
  
  1901, 1902: The Old College, 606 Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
  
  1901: 606 Milwaukee St., Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
  
  1902-1932?: Hyde Park, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1908: 6030 Jackson Park Ave., Chicago, Illinois; probably renamed Stony Island Ave.
  
  1911: 6030 Stony Island Ave., with daughter [receiving day 4^th Thursday] along with M/M John C. Cushman and daughter Lillian, and M/M Charles J. Kendall and daughter Sarah E. Kendall (Kendalls there 1908 with M/M Charles Hull Ewing)
  
  1912: 6030 Stony Island Ave., with daughter [receiving day 4^th Thursday] along with M/M John C. Cushman and daughter Lillian
  
  1913: 6030 Stony Island Ave., with daughter [receiving day 4^th Thursday] along with M/M John C. Cushman and daughter Lillian
  
  1914: 6030 Stony Island Ave., Chicago, Illinois; also Mrs. John C. Cushman and daughter Lillian
  
  1915: 6030 Stony Island Ave., Chicago, Illinois; also Mrs. John C. Cushman and daughter Lillian, and M/M M.H. Schachner
  
  1919: 6044 Stony Island Ave., Chicago, Illinois
  
  1923-1932: Kenilworth, Illinois [with her daughter, Gladys]
• Active In Milwaukee, Wisconsin
  
  Chicago, Illinois
• Studio Location(s) 1882: 380 E. Water St., Milwaukee, WI 1886: 119 S. Wisconsin St. [business] 3^rd floor of home on N. Cass St., Milwaukee, Wisconsin 1902, 1903: 929 Fine Arts Building, Chicago, Illinois 1906: 1025 Fine Arts Building, Chicago, Illinois 1909: 1025 Fine Arts Building, Chicago, Illinois and 203 Michigan Ave.,
• Categories Bookworks, Ceramicist, China Painter
• Training Wheelock’s School for Girls, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
  finishing school in New York, New York
  studied landscape painting with Heinrich Vianden (Poppelsdorf [now part of Bonn] July 9, 1814-February 5, 1899); German American lithographer, considered “father of Wisconsin art”
  NYC with Eliza Pratt Greatorex (1819-1897), Irish-born American, a Hudson River School painter, 2nd woman elected to National Academy of Design; 1st East Coast female artist to spend a summer in the Rocky Mountains
  with Julie Hart Kempson (1834-1913), Hudson River School painter, sister of James & William Hart
  with James & Wm. Hart. Hudson River School painters
  
• Relevant Travel studios of George Ohr in Biloxi, Missisippi; Rookwood in Cincinnati, Ohio; Newcomb in New Orleans, Louisiana, Gates Pottery, Terra Cotta, Illinois
• Exhibitions History 1876: Centennial Exhibition, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  
  1881: Milwaukee Industrial Exposition: dinner service
  
  1881: International Cotton Exposition, Atlanta, Georgia
  
  1882: Primera Exposición Veracruzana, Orizaba, Mexic
  
  1889: Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  
  1892: Industrial Exhibition Association, Toronto, Canada
  
  1893: World’s Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Illinois –Olive Jar; Lidded Jar, 1893; butterfly rose jar
  
  1894: Antwerp International Exposition, Antwerp, Belgium
  
  1900: Paris International Exposition, Paris, France
  
  1901: Pan American Expositional, Buffalo, New York
  
  December 16, 1902-January 11, 1903: First Annual Exhibition of Original Designs for Decorations and Examples of Art Crafts Having Distinct Artistic Merit, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: Bowl; Vase
  
  December 6-20, 1906: Fifth Annual Exhibition of Original Designs for Decorations and Examples of Art Crafts Having Distinct Artistic Merit The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: Bowl [7]; Pitcher; Jug; Cup; Vase
  
  December 8-22, 1908: Seventh Annual Exhibition of Original Designs for Decorations and Examples of Art Crafts Having Distinct Artistic Merit, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: vase, pottery; illuminated book: A Chronicle of the Early Days of William Woods Plankington
  
  1909: Chicago, Illinois [solo]
  
  May 8-22, 1912: Illuminations by Mrs. S.S. Frackelton and Gladys Frackelton, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  October 12-November 15, 1916: Fifteenth Annual Exhibition of Applied Art and Original Designs for Decorations, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: illumination of the 23^rd psalm, Persian style
  
  October 8-28, 1917: Sixteenth Annual Exhibition of Applied Art and Original Designs for Decorations, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: illuminated catalog of works of art [with her daughter Gladys; Monastery Hill Bindery; lent by Maximilian H,. Schachner]
  
  1917: Municipal Art League of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  October 8-27, 1918: Seventeenth Annual Exhibition of Applied Art and Original Designs for Decorations, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: illuminations: The Ten Commandments [lent by Mrs. Gertrude J. Schachner]; Theophile Gautier; All’s Well that Ends Well; Psalm 91; Psalm 23 [with daughter Gladys]
  
  March 9-April 5, 1921: Nineteenth Annual Exhibition of Applied Art and Original Designs for Decorations, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois:  Grow old along with me, illumination on vellum [with Gladys]
  
  1943-1946: Exhibition of Milwaukee China Decorators, Milwaukee County Courthouse, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
  
  1969, 1970, 1971, 1973, 1974: University Club, Milwaukee, Wisconsin [all solo]
  
  1971: Milwaukee Public Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin [solo]
  
  September 13-15, 1973: Women in the Arts, Wingspread, Racine, Wisconsin: candleholder, 1894-1909, stoneware with gray glaze
  
  1988: 1888: Frederick Layton and His World, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  
  1998: Western Pottery Association
  
   
• Collections Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
  
  Milwaukee County Historical Society, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
  
  Milwaukee Downtown Public Library, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
  
  Milwaukee Public Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
  
  Museum of Wisconsin Art
  
  Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois
  
  Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  
  Sinsinawa Mound, Sinsinawa, Wisconsin
  
  State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
• Publications entry by Nancy Owen in Schultz, Rima Lunin and Adele Hast, eds., Women Building Chicago, 1790-1990: A Biographical Dictionary, University of Indiana Press, 2001 Frelinghuysen, Alice Cooney; Martin Eidelberg; and Adrienne Spinozzi. American Art Pottery: The Robert A. Ellison Jr. Collection. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2018. Fry, Laura F. "A Wild Ceramic Orgy: Women Artists Shaping Pottery in Victorian America."  online Hamersly, L.R. Men and Women of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporaries, 1909. Heller, Jules and Nancy G. Heller. North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary., Routledge, 2013. "House Chronicle of Clairview," Bulletin of the Detroit Museum of Art, vol. 10, no. 5 (January 1916) online Korenic, Lynette Marie. The Decorative Fire of Susan S. Frackelton: China Painting, Art Pottery, and Book Illumination. University of California-Santa Barbara, 2006. Marks, Patricia. Susan S. Frackelton: Inventive Artists in Milwaukee’s Past, 1995. Stover, Frances. “Susan Goodrich Frackelton and the China Painters,” Milwaukee County Historical Society, March 1954. Weedon, George, “Susan S. Frackelton and the American Arts and Crafts Movement,” Master’s thesis, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1975. Weedon, George. Susan S. Frackelton and the American Arts and Crafts Movement. Milwaukee: Milwaukee Box Press, 1975.
• Memberships Chicago Woman’s Club (joined 1904)
  
  Daughters of the American Revolution
  
  Milwaukee Artists Association; founded 1887
  
  National League of Mineral Painters; founder 1892
  
  General Federation of Women’s Clubs’ chaired art committee for 5^th biennial in Milwaukee, 1900
• Awards 1881: International Cotton Exposition, Atlanta, Georgia: china painting
  
  1882: first place: Primera Exposición Veracruzana, Orizaba, Mexico: china painting – 650 pieces in dinner service for 18 that had been shown at 1876 Fair
  
  1893: World’s Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Illinois [8 medals]
  
  1894: Antwerp International Exposition, Antwerp, Belgium
  
  1900: Paris International Exposition, Paris, France
  
  1901: Pan American Expositional, Buffalo, New York
  
  October 8-28, 1917: Municipal Art League of Chicago prize: Sixteenth Annual Exhibition of Applied Art and Original Designs for Decorations, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: illuminated catalog of works of art
  
  October 8-27, 1918: Municipal Art League of Chicago prize: Seventeenth Annual Exhibition of Applied Art and Original Designs for Decorations, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: illuminations: The Ten Commandments [lent by Mrs. Gertrude J. Schachner]; Theophile Gautier; All’s Well that Ends Well; Psalm 91; Psalm 23 [with daughter Gladys]
  
  2005: Wisconsin Visual Art Lifetime Achievement Award
• Archive(s) Susan Stuart Frackelton Papers, Milwaukee County Historical Society, Milwaukee, Wisconsin Susan Stuart Frackelton Papers, Milwaukee Public Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin Susan Stuart Frackelton Papers, Special Collections, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee library
• Other Occupation(s) buyer for husband’s import company
  
  1877: started Frackelton China Decorating Works, a china decorating works within the family business
  
  taught china painting
  
  1881-1891: business manager of family business, then owned by her father-in-law, William Frackelton
  
  directed Milwaukee Art School
  
  1886: published Tried by Fire, manual for aspiring china painters; 2^nd ed. 1892; 3^rd ed. 1895
  
  patented portable gas-fired kiln
  
  invented odorless paint colors for home painters
  
  published series of articles on American potters and potteries for Sketch Book:
  
  “Our American Potteries, Teco Ware,” September 1905
  
  “Our American Potteries, Maratta’s and Albert’s Work at the Gates Potteries,” October 1905
  
              “Rookwood Pottery,” February 1906
  
  “Our American Potteries, Newcomb Pottery,” July 1906
  
  wrote “The Monastery Hill Bindery, House Beautiful, March 1914
  
  lectured on art pottery and craft productions for women’s clubs, teacher’s institutes, Chautauqua assemblies
• Website(s) pages on Milwaukee County Historical Society website
  
  page on Museum of Wisconsin Art website
  
  page on Wisconsin Historical Society website
  
  page on Rago Auctions website
  
  page on Artprice.com website
  
  page on Logan Art Blog
  
  article: Recinos, Eva. "10 Influential Figures in the Arts and Crafts Movement," October 22, 2019 on Hunker.com website
  
  entry on Wikipedia
  
  interview by Anne Warringdon from Sketch Book, September 1903
  
  sale offering of Guest Book for the Home of Herbert V. and Janet A. Burrows on Lorenz Schwartz webite
• Biography Parents:  Edwin H. (September 27, 1819-December 4, 1896) and Mary Stewart Robinson (New York 1823-1887) Goodrich; moved to Milwaukee in 1846 from North Hartford, New York [near Utica]; father started with the wholesale dry goods firm of Bonnell, Williams & Co.; in early 1850s he got involved in railroad construction, then banking and owned several brickyards
  
  He was with the firm of Eastman & Goodrich. President of the Merchant's National Bank, which was organized in 1865 with a capital of $100,000. Cause of death listed as paralysis. He was a member of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, and one of the Original Fifty-Five Subcribers to Forest Home Cemetery, which enabled the Vestry to purchase the land from the heirs of the Rev. Hull.
  
   
  
  In 1890s, focused increasingly on art pottery instead of china painting; she applied molded or incised decoration and used salt-glazes.  She made mostly steins, loving cups, punch bowls and jugs.
  
  Her Olive Jar displayed at the 1893 fair was the first object sold from the Woman’s Building, sold to a director of the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art