Tressa Benson

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  • 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

     
  • Museum of Nebraska Art

    Downers Grove Artists Guild