BORN: Albany, NY

DIED:

MARRIED: Egerton Adamsii

TRAINING

1881-1882iii, 1897, 1900-1901 Art Institute of Chicago

1880s Florence; Romeiv

1880s Paris, Charles Emile Carolus-Duran and Jean Jacques Hennerv

1908 William P. Henderson summer school, Lake Bluff, ILvi

Art Students League of New York

ART RELATED EMPLOYMENT

1891 Louis H. Prang and Co., designervii

1892-1893 General Committee for the Woman’s branch of the auxiliary on the organization of art congresses, World’s Columbian Expositionviii

1892 Authored Beauty of Form and Grace of Vestureix

TEACHING

RESIDENCES

1881-1895 Chicago

c.1905 Paris

c.1914 Chicago

TRAVEL

1890 Paris

c.1891 Cushing Island, MEx

1898 Europexi

MEMBERSHIPS/OFFICES

Bohemian Art Clubxii [later known as the Palette Club] (president 1881-1885)

HONORS

Associazione Artistica Internationale, Romexiii (one of first woman artists elected)

SELECTED JURIES SERVED

Arché Club Salon 1896xiv

Palette Club annual exhibition 1895xv

United Annual Exhibition of the Palette Club and the Cosmopolitan Art Club, Art Institute of Chicago 1895

GROUP EXHIBITIONSxvi

American Watercolor Society annual 1882, 1883,xviiixvii 1884, ten years total

Art Institute of Chicago, American Watercolors 1891, 1894, 1895

Art Institute, Chicago and Vicinity 1914

Boston Art Club 1884,xix 1894, 1895

Brooklyn Art Association 1882xx

Inter-State Industrial Exposition 1887xxi

National Academy of Design annual 1883

New York Watercolor Societyxxiiixxii 1881, 1882,

Paris Salon 1898xxiv

World’s Columbian Exposition, Woman’s Building, Department K, Fine Artsxxv

ONE, TWO OR THREE MAN EXHIBITIONS

PERMANENT COLLECTIONS

INTERESTING NOTES

iFor some good background on the artist see: “Chicago Lady Artists,” Chicago Tribune, 7/4/1886, p.1. In “Artists Of Talent,” Chicago Evening Post, 5/8/1891, p.5, she is noted as descended from the Livingston family of New York and Governor Bradford who came over on the Mayflower.

iiHe was president of Chicago Forge and Bolt and of American Bridge Works in Chicago.

iiiProspectus and Catalogue of the Schools of the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, 1882-83, “Names of Pupils,” [p.9], AIC Scrapbooks, Vol. 3, n.p. This also confirmed her Chicago residence.

iv“Chicago Palette Club,” The Graphic, Date unknown, inferred from several facts 1890, IHAP Library.

vOp. cit., Chicago Evening Post, 5/8/1891, p.5.

vi“Art And Artists, Chicago Evening Post, 6/27/1908, p.4.

viiOp. cit., Chicago Evening Post, 5/8/1891, p.5.

viii“When the Artists Get Together,” Chicago Tribune, 1/2/1892, in AIC Scrapbooks, Vol. 5, p.74. “When The Artists Get Together,” Times (Chicago), 1/2/1892.

ixThe book was apparently authored with her sister Francis Mary Steele, (NY: Dodd, Mead and company).

xOp. cit., Chicago Evening Post, 5/8/1891, p.5.

xi“Art,” Sunday Chicago Tribune, 5/29/1898, p.32.

xiiHer photograph appears with an article on the organization in op.cit., Chicago Evening Post, 5/8/1891, p.5.

xiiiOp. cit., Chicago Evening Post, 5/8/1891, p.5.

xiv“In The Art Studios,” Chicago Tribune, 12/22/1895, p.29. “Arche Club Awards,” Chicago Evening Post, 2/22/1896, p.1.

xv“Art And The Artists,” Chicago Evening Post, 12/7/1895, p.10.

xviIn op. cit., Chicago Sunday Tribune, 7/4/1886, p.1, it was state she exhibited in “all the well known galleries of the East and Chicago.”

xvii“Studio and Gallery,” Chicago Tribune, 3/4/1883, p.13.

xviii“Art Notes,” Chicago Tribune, 4/5/1884, p.9.

xix“Art Notes,” Chicago Tribune, 5/11/1884, p.16.

xx“Art In Chicago,” Chicago Tribune, 3/19/1882, p.10.

xxi“The Chicago Artists,” Chicago Tribune, 10/24/1887, p.4.

xxii“Art And Artists,” Daily Inter Ocean, 3/31/1883, p.3.

xxiii“Notes from the Galleries and Studios,” Chicago Tribune, 2/5/1882, p.7. See also, “Art Notes,” Chicago Tribune, 4/5/1884, p.9.

xxiv“Art,” Sunday Chicago Tribune, 5/29/1898, p.32.

xxvThere are several misspellings in the official catalogue and we expect the entry as Mrs. G. P. Adams was hers. Department of Publicity and Promotion, Editor, Official Catalogue of Exhibits. World’s Columbian Exposition. Woman’s Building. Part XIV, (Chicago : W.B. Conkey, revised edition, 1893), Dept. K: Fine Arts, p.41.