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ILLINOIS ARTISTS

IHAP has compiled histories of over 1,500 artists who meet the following criteria:·BORN before January 1900LIVED at least half their career in Illinois or closely attached to the state. PRIMARILY were painters, not sculptors or printmakers. IHAP makes no distinction about the style of an artist’s oeuvre; whether they were modernists, impressionists, genre painters, still-life artists, scenic artists, naïve painters, & c.

Artist Name                                                          Birth               Death

Miles Jefferson Early

 

 

1886

July 24, 1957 Chicago

Elanor R. Eaton

 

 

Unknown

After 1900 Highland Park?

Marguerite Eaton

 

 

1890

Unknown

James Eccles

 

 

1885

September 13, 1983 Oak Park, IL

Percy Bernard Eckhart

 

 

1877

July 1969 Chicago, IL

Amanda E. Edwards

 

 

Unknown

After 1913 Chicago?

Lilly G. Egan

 

 

Unknown

October 1915 Chicago

Felix Ekblad

 

 

1851

After 1886 Chicago?

Irene H. Eliel

 

 

Unknown

After 1931 Chicago?

Henry Arthur Elkins

 

 

1847

July 1884 Georgetown, CO

Bertram Robinson Elliot

 

 

1889

c.July 10, 1931 New York, NY

Maude Ursula Ellis

 

 

1892

April 10, 1953 Chicago

William Frederick Elms

 

 

Unknown

? After 1925 Chicago?

Ada Enander

 

 

1873

March 1946, Chicago

Elizabeth Francis Engelhard

 

 

1893

May 1965 Beaumont, CA

Harry Leon Engle

 

 

1870

November 18, 1968 Appleton, WI

William Herman Eppens

 

 

1885

October 8, 1956  Chicago

Richard Rich Epperly

 

 

1891

December 3, 1973 Chicago

Joshua Seaverns Erickson

 

 

1883

December 21, 1956 Morrison, IL

Oscar B. Erickson

 

 

1890

September 1971 Milwaukee, WI

Maria Olivia Erlander

 

 

1870

January 12, 1968 Rockford, IL

Junes Ernst

 

 

1890

After 1918 Chicago?

Gordon Ertz

 

 

1891

After 1921 Chicago?

Thomas J. Erwin

 

 

1893

After 1928 Chicago?

Gertrude Estabrooks

 

 

1868

After 1915 Chicago?

Anna B. Evans

 

 

1875

After 1902 Oak Park, IL?

Sarah Josephine Evans

 

 

Unknown

After 1915 Chicago?

Dulah M. Evans Krehbiel

 

 

1870

July 24, 1951 Evanston, IL

James Cady Ewell

 

 

1887

April 20, 1963 Delray Beach, FL

Hazel Crow Ewell

 

 

1887

August 12, 1972 Ringwood, IL

Lydia Dunham Fabian

 

 

1857

May 25, 1947 Chicago

Florence Fairman

 

 

1880

After 1919 Chicago ?

Frances Farrar

 

 

Unknown

After 1910 Chicago?

William Macknight Farrow

 

 

1885

November 7, 1967 Chicago

William Tolton Farwell

 

 

1840

December 13, 1931 Chicago

Cornelia Adèle Fassett

 

 

1831

January 4, 1898 Washington, D. C.

Eunice Florence Faulkner

 

 

Unknown

After 1904 Chicago?

Rose Emily Fay

 

 

1852

1929

William Kinne Fellows

 

 

1870

August 8, 1948 Chicago

Agnes Lawson Fenerty

 

 

1885

August 1974 Woodbridge, VA

Hallie Elizabeth Fenton

 

 

1880

December 1935, Bronxville, NY?

Agnes Howell Ferguson

 

 

1895

November 24, 1985 Franklin Grove, IL

Sara S. Field

 

 

1871

April 6, 1948 Chicago

Mintie Green Field

 

 

1864

May 21, 1931 Chicago

Albert F. Fleury

 

 

1848

January 30, 1924 Chicago, IL

George Flower

 

 

1780

January 15, 1862 Grayville, IL

Harry Fluhart-Williams

 

 

1861

Oct 15, 1938 DeLand, FL

Anna Maria Foerster

 

 

1848

March 31, 1919 Chicago

Reuben W. Fogel

 

 

Unknown

After 1908 Chicago?

Margaret Galloway Fogg

 

 

1845

January 20, 1932 Elgin, IL

James Forbes

 

 

1800

1881 Plainwell, MI

Ruth Van Sickle Ford

 

 

1897

April 18, 1989 Aurora, IL

Henry Chapman Ford

 

 

1828

February 24, 1894 Santa Barbara, CA

Elmer Alexander Forsberg

 

 

1883

August 3, 1950 Chicago

James E. Forsythe

 

 

Unknown

After 1904 Chicago?

Evelyn Evie Fort

 

 

1895

July 1998, Winter Park, FL

Beulah Fowler

 

 

1892

After 1919 Chicago ?

Harriet A. Fox

 

 

Unknown

After 1912 Chicago?

Frances Foy

 

 

1890

October 16, 1963 Chicago

Theodore Oscar Fraenkel

 

 

1857

After 1904 Chicago?

Nellie Morgan Frain

 

 

1890

March 19, 1966 Chicago

Gerald A. Frank

 

 

1888

After 1937

Jessie Margaret Franks

 

 

Unknown

After 1901 Chicago?

Hazel Inez Frazee

 

 

1891

June 3, 1972 Chicago

Ernest Fredericks

 

 

1877

After 1940? Chicago

Margaret Cecilia Freer

 

 

1852

After 1908 Chicago?

Cora Fredericka Freer

 

 

1849

December 5, 1928 Chicago

Frederick Warren Freer

 

 

Unknown

March 7, 1908 Chicago

Alice Helm French

 

 

1864

After 1953, Williamstown, MA?

Maurice Friedlander

 

 

1899

December 31, 1968 Chicago

Oldach Frisenberg

 

 

1885

After 1929 Chicago?

Joseph Froula

 

 

1887

March 5, 1939 Norwood Park, IL

Takuichi Fujii

 

 

1892

July 16, 1964 Chicago

Frederick Fursman

 

 

1874

June 12, 1943 Saugatuck, MI

Florence Wilkins Furst

 

 

1885

December 30, 1955 Freeport, IL

Otto Robert Gaensslen

 

 

1876

After 1918 Chicago/Paris?

Agnes Cook Gale

 

 

1873

After 1950 Chicago?

Maria Kenny Gallagher

 

 

Unknown

After 1925 Chicago?

Edwin Gamble

 

 

1876

April 13, 1938 Milan, IL

Claude Mallory Garland

 

 

Unknown

After 1931 Chicago?

Leon Garland

 

 

1896

November 27, 1941 Chicago

Albert Gartmann

 

 

1876

After 1923 Chicago?

Miklos Gaspar

 

 

1885

June 30, 1946 Chicago

Jules Maurice Gaspard

 

 

1862

February 18, 1919 New York, NY

Miles Standish Gates

 

 

1889

November 6, 1973 Wheaton, IL

Frank J. Gavencky

 

 

1888

February 13, 1966 Ramona, CA

Todros Geller

 

 

1889

February 23, 1949 Chicago

Albert F. Giddings

 

 

1883

After 1926 Chicago?

Edmund Wilhelm Giesbert

 

 

1893

November 11, 1971 Harbert, MI

Murvin Willis Gilbert

 

 

1897

After 1932 Chicago?

Etta Gilbreath

 

 

1866

May 11, 1904 Chicago

Mabel Hyde Gillette

 

 

Unknown

After 1920 Chicago?

Elizabeth B. Gilman

 

 

1847

December 23, 1935 Mendota, IL

Anna May Gilruth

 

 

1886

October 23, 1962 Chicago

Eugenie M. Glaman

 

 

1873

October 19, 1956 Chicago

Frank Turner Godfrey

 

 

1873

January 1967 Portland, OR

A. Goldsticker

 

 

Unknown

After 1875 Quincy, IL?

Belle Norton Goodwin

 

 

Unknown

August 15, 1928 Ithaca, NY

James Farrington Gookins

 

 

1840

May 23, 1904 New York, NY

John Goossens

 

 

1887

July 6, 1968 Chicago

John Thomas Goshorn

 

 

1871

December 18, 1933 Chicago

Anna Elvira Grafström

 

 

1879

1968 St. Augustine, FL

Jonas Olof Grafstrom

 

 

1855

3/30/1933 Matfors, Medelpad, Sweden

Robert WadsworthGrafton

 

 

1876

December 17, 1936 Michigan City, IN

Cornelius A. Grange

 

 

1895

August 18, 1933 Elmhurst, IL

James Jeffrey Grant

 

 

1886

1960 Berwyn, IL

Frederic Milton Grant

 

 

1883

February 5, 1959 Oakland, CA

Maurice Greenberg

 

 

1893

After 1933 Chicago?

Benjamin C. Greengard

 

 

1867

October 23, 1932 Chicago

Louis Frederick Grell

 

 

1887

November 21, 1960 Chicago

William Davenport Griffen

 

 

1894

April 27, 1986 San Rafael, CA

Nina Kickbusch Griffin

 

 

1884

December 24, 1968 Chicago

Louis Oscar Griffith

 

 

1872

November 13, 1956 Franklin, IN

Julia Sulzer Griffith

 

 

1875

November 5, 1945 Chicago

Edward Thomas Grigware

 

 

1889

January 9, 1960 Cody, WY

Oskar Gross

 

 

1871

August 19, 1963 Chicago

Earl Clifford Gross

 

 

1899

March 2, 1993 Albuquerque, NM

Oliver Dennett Grover

 

 

1860

February 14, 1927 Chicago

Emile Jaques Grumieaux

 

 

1897

December 23, 1954 Downers Grove, IL

Louis Phillipe Grumieaux

 

 

1872

January 21, 1953 Downers Grove, IL

Lucie Honiss Guerazzi

 

 

Unknown

After 1904 Chicago?

Charlotte Lotta Guffin

 

 

1844

1896 Shelbyville, IN

Max Ernest Gundlach

 

 

1863

October 10, 1957 Winnetka, IL

Indiana Gyberson

 

 

1879

New England

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