Sylvia Judson

Artist Details

• First Name Sylvia
• Middle Name Van Doren
• Maiden Name Shaw
• Alternate Name(s) Sylvia Shaw Haskins
• Surname Judson
• Spouse’s Full Name Clay Judson
• Names and Birth Years of Children 2 children
• Birth Date June 30, 1897
• Birth Place Chicago, Illinois
• Death Date 1978
• Residence(s) "Ragdale," Lake Forest, Illinois
• Active In Lake Forest, Illinois
• Categories Sculptor
• Training Westover School, Connecticut
  School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; student of Anna Hyatt Huntingdon and of Albin Polasek
  1920: Academie de la Grande Chaumiere, Paris, France; student of Antoine Bourdelle
  
• Subject(s) of Art Array
• Exhibitions History 1919-20, 1927, 1930, 1934, 1940, 1941, 1944, 1945, 1946: Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  February 13-March 30, 1919: The Twenty-Third Annual Exhibition by Artists of Chicago & Vicinity, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Vierge, plaster; Miss Pan, bronze
  
  1933, 1934: A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings & Sculpture, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1938: Sculpture by Sylvia Shaw Judson, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois [solo]
  
  1940: Arden Gallery, New York, New York [solo]
  
  1948: Illinois State Museum, Springfield, Illinois [solo]
  
  1949: International Sculpture Show, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  
  1949: National Academy of Design, New York, New York
  
  1955: Chicago Public Library, Chicago, Illinois [solo]
  
  February 12-26, 1957: Chicago Artists No-Jury Exhibition 
  
  1957: Sculpture Center, New York, New York [solo]
  
  Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
  
  Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
  
  Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
  
  New York World's Fair, New York, New York
  
  The Seventh Annual Katherine Filson Covington Memorial Art Exhibition, A Twentieth-Century Quest for Nature’s Essence: The Sculpture of Sylvia Shaw Judson, Lake Forest College?
• Collections Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  Brookgreen Gardens,
  
  Chicago Botanical Garden, Glencoe, Illinois
  
  Kosciasco Park, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
  
  National Academy of Design, New York, New York
  
  The Ragdale Foundation
  
  The White House Rose Garden, Washington DC
• Publications Underwood, Sandra L. The “Bird Girl:” The Story of a Sculpture by Sylvia Shaw Judson, Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing, Ltd., 2006.
• Memberships The Friday Club, Lake Forest, Illinois
  
  Scribblers, Lake Forest, Illinois
  
  Chicago Public School Art Society, president 1947-1950
  
  Woman's Board of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; vice president 1953-1954
  
  Lake Forest Friends Meeting, clerk 1956-1957
  
  Humanities Visiting Committee, University of Chicago, 1962-1974
  
  National Sculpture Society, New York, New York; Fellow
  
  National Academy of Design, New York, New York; Academician
  
  Cosmopolitan Club, New York, New York
  
  Chicago Arts Club, Chicago, Illinois
  
  National Academy of Interior Decorators; honorary member
• Awards 1926: Honorable Mention, Arts Club of Chicago, Illinois
  
  1929: Logan Medal, Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Little Gardener
  
  1945: Municipal Art League Honorable Mention, Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1949: Purchase Prize, International Sculpture Show, Philadelphia Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  
  1957: Milbrook Garden Club Medal,
• Other Occupation(s) Author of The Quiet Eye: A Way of Looking at Pictures (Chicago: Henry Regnery, 1954) and For Gardens and Other Places, The Sculpture of Sylvia Shaw Judson, Chicago: Henry Regnery, 1967)
  
  1963: Sculpture Instructor, American University in Cairo, Egypt
• Website(s) "True Story of the Bird Girl" written by Sylvia Shaw Judson's daughter Alice Ryerson Hayes on The Cliff Dwellers website