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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.

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