Tressa Emerson Benson (1896-1987)
Path from the Village
Tressa Emerson Benson (1896-1987)
Portrait of Lady
oil on canvas
23 x 19 inches
Tressa Emerson Benson (1896-1987)
Untitled (Four Figures)
Collection of Museum of Nebraska Art
Artist Details
Tressa
Pond
Emerson
Tressa Pond Emerson Benson
Benson
Ben Albert Benson (1901-1986)
born in Bollnas, Sweden
artist and art teacher; her assistant at University of Nebraska?
married June 12, 1930 in Davenport, took train to Maine to spend the summer with her mother Addie Emerson, then he had a commercial art job waiting in Chicago with Mr. Jameson
June 28, 1896
Bucksport, Maine
1987
Florida
1930-?: Chicago, Illinois
1940 census: 4132 Highland Ave., Downers Grove, IL – household was Tressa, Ben, her mom Addie Emerson age 75
Lincoln, Nebraska
Chicago, Illinois
shared with her husband and Scottish artist John Jameson in Chicago
Painter-Oil, Watercolorist
BA, Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar, Virginia
BFA. degree from Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York
1923-1924: Academie Colarosi and Academie de la Grande Chaumiere, Paris, France on a scholarship from Syracuse
Cape Cod School of Art, Provincetown, Massachusetts: student of Charles Hawthorne: painting
student E. Ambrose Webster at his Summer School of Painting, Provincetown, Massachusetts
Paris, France
Array
1926, 1927, 1929, 1930, 1934: Nebraska Art Association, Lincoln, Nebraska
1929: Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri
1931: Chicago Society of Artists, Chicago, Illinois
1931-1938, 1941, 1942, 1944: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
February 4-March 7, 1937: Forty-First Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: Daguerreotype Dandies, oil; Head of a Young Man, oil
July 21-October 9, 1932: Paintings by Tressa Emerson Benson, Fred Biesel, Ruth Van Sickle Ford, Agnes Potter Lowrie, Irving Manoir, and David McCosh, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois:
1933, 1934: Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings & Sculpture, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
1934: a still life
1935: Lincoln Artists’ Guild exhibit at Gold & Company Department Store, Lincoln, Nebraska
several years: Mandel Brothers Department Store, Chicago, Illinois;
1941: solo
1957: Downers Grove Public Library, Downers Grove, Illinois (solo)
1928-1930: Art Institute of Omaha, Omaha, Nebraska
Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Lincoln Artists’ Guild, Lincoln, Nebraska
National Association of Women Artists
Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Dakota Wesleyan University, Mitchell, South Dakota
The Museum of Nebraska Art
Syracuse University Art Gallery, Syracuse, New York
Chicago Society of Artists, Chicago, Illinois
Downers Grove Art Guild/Association, Downers Grove, Illinois; founder
Lincoln Artists’ Guild, Lincoln, Nebraska (even after leaving Nebraska)
National Association of Women Artists, Painters, Sculptors
1929: Medal, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri
February 4-March 7, 1937: Mr & Mrs. Frank H. Armstrong Prize, Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: Daguerreotype Dandies, oil
1938: Mr & Mrs. Frank H. Armstrong Prize, Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
1925-1930: teacher, School of Fine Arts, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska
FAP/WPA
1946-1948: Art Director, Avery Coonley School, Downers Grove, Illinois
1950-1952: teacher, adult education program, Downers Grove High School, Downers Grove, Illinois