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Armstrong, Louise Van Voorhis

BORN:

DIED:

MARRIED: Yes after 1905, possibly to Harry Armstrong

TRAINING

c.1900 University of Michigan

Art Institute of Chicago: 1892; 1902-1903 Allen E. Philbrick; 1902 summer antique; 1903 Louis W. Wilson; 1904 John C. Johansen; 1904-1905 Thomas W. Stevens; 1911 Fred D. Schook

1903 Delavan Summer Art School, John H. Vanderpoeli

ART RELATED EMPLOYMENT

TEACHING

RESIDENCES

1902-1911 Chicago

1905 Evanston, Illinois

1923-1938 Manistee, Michigan

TRAVEL

MEMBERSHIPS/OFFICES

Art Institute of Chicago Alumni Association (vice president 1922-1923)ii

HONORS

1903, 1904 Honorable Mention, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

SELECTED JURIES SERVED

Art Institute of Chicago, Alumni Retrospective 1923

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Art Institute, Chicago and Vicinity 1919

Art Institute of Chicago, American Watercolor 1920

ONE, TWO OR THREE MAN EXHIBITIONS

PERMANENT COLLECTIONS

INTERESTING NOTES

iChicago Evening Post, 6/22/1903 in Art Institute of Chicago Scrapbooks, vol. 18, p.134.

iiShe wrote a humorous play for the annual meeting which was discussed in “Art Abandoned,” “News Of The Art World,” supplement, Chicago Evening Post, 2/21/1922. See also, “Stars In Play Of Artists’ Society,” Chicago Evening Post, 3/30/1922 in Art Institute of Chicago Scrapbooks, vol. 43.

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