BORN: February 3, 1898 New Orleans, LA

DIED: February 17, 1975 Peoria, IL

MARRIED: Never

TRAININGii

Louisiana Polytechnic Institute, engineering

ART RELATED EMPLOYMENT

TEACHING

RESIDENCES

1920s Chicago

c.1937-1940 Elgin, Illinois

1940-1975 Peoria

TRAVEL

MEMBERSHIPS/OFFICES

HONORS

Prize, University of Illinois annual exhibition

SELECTED JURIES SERVED

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Peoria Art Center 1950s

ONE, TWO OR THREE MAN EXHIBITIONS

PERMANENT COLLECTIONS

INTERESTING NOTES

This artist was institutionalized for about forty years in Elgin and Peoria State Hospitals.

iJean Budd, “The Strange Case Of John Abbott,” Peoria Star Journal, 2/19/1975, provides an in-depth account of his life in Peoria.

iiSome biographical materials state he studied at the Art Institute of Chicago. This cannot be confirmed through student records.