ENDNOTES

[1]“The Fine Arts,” Chicago Tribune, 3/6/1892, p.26.

[2]“The Fine Arts,” Chicago Tribune, 3/6/1892, p.26.

[3]Op. cit., Chicago Tribune, 3/6/1892, p.26.

[4]“The Fine Arts,” Chicago Tribune, 1/1/1893, p.39.

[5]Richard W. Bock, Memoirs of an American Artist, Sculptor Richard W. Bock, (Los Angeles: C. C. Publishing, 1991), p.50.

[6]“Chicago Society of Artists,” The Chicago Tribune, 12/11/1894, p.7.

[7]Announcement card, “The Cosmopolitan Art Club of Chicago,” in AIC Scrapbooks, Vol. 5, p.138.

[8]Chicago Evening Journal, 3/4/1896, in AIC Scrapbooks, Vol. 7, col. 1, p.3. A list of the exhibitors may be found in “News Of Current Art,” Chicago Times-Herald, 3/8/1896, p.33 and further elucidation and critique in the 3/15/1896 issue, AIC Scrapbooks, Vol. 7, p.18 as well as in “In The Art Studios,” Chicago Tribune, 3/15/1896 in AIC Scrapbooks, Vol. 7, p.21. See also Vol. 7, p.6.

[9]“Art and Artists,” Chicago Evening Post, 3/14/1896, p.10

[10]“Cosmopolitan Art Club’s Exhibit,” Chicago Tribune, 3/11/1896, p.4. For details on the 1896 exhibition by the Cosmopolitan Club and the announcement of the meeting of artists to form a “Society of Midland Painters” see Grace Duffie Boylan, “Art and Artists,” Chicago Evening Journal, 3/12/1896 in AIC Scrapbooks, Vol. 7, pp.9-10. For an extensive review of the show see “In The Art Studios,” Chicago Tribune, 3/8/1896, p.36.

[11]“In The Social World,” Chicago Times Herald, 3/11/1896, p.5. The exhibition catalogue is available at several midwestern museum libraries including the Ryerson Library of the Art Institute of Chicago.

[12]“Artists Make Merry, Dine in a Sculptor’s Den,” Chicago Chronicle, 4/19/1896, in AIC Scrapbooks, Vol. 7, p.56.

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