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Bacon, Edith Jane
BORN: October 10, 1879 Illinois (city unknown)
DIED: June 17, 1970 Evanston, IL
MARRIED:
TRAINING
1891, 1898 Art Institute of Chicago
1903-1904 Chicago Academy of Fine Artsi
1908 William P. Henderson summer school, Lake Bluff, ILii
ART RELATED EMPLOYMENT
1904 (April) illustrated for The Sketch Book
TEACHING
North Shore Country Day School, Winnetka, IL
RESIDENCES
1921iii-1925 Kenosha, Wisconsin
Zion, IL
Winnetka, IL
1964-1970 Broad nursing home, Evanston, IL
TRAVEL
MEMBERSHIPS/OFFICES
Society of Independent Artists; Wisconsin Society of Painters & Sculptors
HONORS
SELECTED JURIES SERVED
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
A Century of Progress, Graphic Arts Building, International Exhibition of Paintings and the National Traveling Show of the Chicago Camera Club, 1933
Art Institute, American annual 1913, 1938
Art Institute, Chicago and Vicinity 1913-1920, 1922, 1923, 1930, 1939
Arts Club of Chicago, members exhibition 1923
Chicago No-Jury Society of Artists annual 1928, 1931
Chicago School of Fine and Applied Arts, Students of William P. Henderson 1908
Salon des Refusés, Rothschild Department Store, Chicago 1921
Salons of America 1922, 1924
Society of Independent Artists 1925
ONE, TWO OR THREE MAN EXHIBITIONS
1922 Milwaukee Art Museum
1940 Paul Theobald Gallery, Chicago, woodcutsiv
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
INTERESTING NOTES
iThe Sketch Book, Vol. 3, No.8. April 1904.
ii“Art And Artists, Chicago Evening Post, 6/27/1908, p.4.
iiiSalon des Refusés of 1921, (Chicago: Rothshild & Company, 11/21/1921).
ivC. J. Bulliet, “Around the Galleries: Two Women Exhibiting,” Chicago Daily News, 4/27/1940, Art Antiques Music Section, p.25.