Anthony Angarola timeline

Angarola, Anthony[1]

An in-depth review of the artist's life may be found here.

BORN: February 4, 1893 Chicago

DIED: August 15, 1929 Chicago[2]

MARRIED: Summer 1918 Marie Ambrosius of Chicago (divorced)

TRAINING

Art Institute of Chicago[3]: 1908 Elementary evenings; 1909-1911 evenings with Antonin Sterba; 1911 summer with Sterba; 1911-1913 Sterba; 1914 Graduated,[4] drawing, painting and sculpture; 1913-1917 Harry M. Walcott; 1914 Edouard A. Vysekal

ART RELATED EMPLOYMENT

1917-1918 Illustrated political cartoons and illustrated for Italian language newspapers, Chicago

1922 Illustrated for The Wave

c.1922 Contributor to Milwaukee Arts Monthly[5]

1924 Illustrated The Kingdom of Evil by Ben Hecht, (Chicago: Pascal Covici)

TEACHING[6]

1914-1916 Assistant Teacher, afternoon sketch class, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

1921, 1922 Milwaukee Layton School of Art[7]

1922-1925 Minneapolis School of Art: Life, Portrait painting, Color composition, Still life, Sketch[8]

1926[9]-1928 Art Institute of Chicago, Summer Outdoor Landscape painting

1926-1928 Kansas City Art Institute, head of painting and drawing

1929 St. Paul School of Art, Head Instructor[10]

Privately

RESIDENCES

1893-1922 Chicago

1922-1925 Minneapolis and Chicago

1925-1927 Chicago

1927-1929 Kansas City, Kansas and Chicago[11]

TRAVEL

1920s Glen Haven, Michigan (summers)

1927 California

1928 California

1928-1929 France; Italy; Budapest[12]

MEMBERSHIPS/OFFICES

Chicago Galleries Association; Chicago No-Jury Society of Artists; Grand Central Art Galleries; Independent Society of Artists, Chicago; Introspectives, Chicago[13]

HONORS

1915 Honorable Mention, Portrait and Color Composition, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

1916 William O. Goodman First Prize, Art Institute of Chicago, Art Students’ League[14]

1916 Frederick Magnus Brand Memorial First Color Composition Prize, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

1916 Class Honorable Mention Life Study, Painting, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

1916 Class Honorable Mention Color Composition, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

1917 Faculty Honorable Mention, School of the Art Institute of Chicago[15]

1921 Honorable Mention, Art Institute of Chicago, American Annual[16]

1921 Clyde M. Carr Landscape Prize, Art Institute, Chicago & Vicinity[17]

1921 Prize, Chicago Society of Artists

1924 Third Prize, Minneapolis Museum of Art, Artists of Minneapolis-St. Paul

1925 Business Men’s Art Club Prize, Art Institute, Chicago & Vicinity[18]

1926 Business Men’s Art Club Prize, Art Institute, Chicago & Vicinity[19]

1925 Chicago Society of Artists Silver Medal, Art Institute, Chicago & Vicinity

1926 (Nov.) Second Purchase Prize, Chicago Galleries Association[20]

1926 Prize, Chicago Art Guild

1927 Guggenheim Traveling Fellowship, Italy; France

JURIES SERVED

Art Institute of Chicago, American Annual 1924

Pan-American Exhibition, Los Angeles Museum of Art 1925

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, American Annual 1926, 1929

American Federation of Arts, contemporary Chicago painters, circulating exhibition, organized by the Art Institute of Chicago 1931, 1932[21]

Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress 1933

Art Institute of Chicago, A Half Century of American Art 1939

Art Institute of Chicago, Alumni Show 1918

Art Students’ League of Chicago annual 1914-1918

Art Institute of Chicago, American Annual 1919-1922, 1924, 1926-1929, 1939

Art Institute, Chicago & Vicinity 1915, 1919-1930

Carnegie Institute annual 1922-1928

Carson Pirie Scott & Co., All-Illinois Society of Fine Art 1926

Charcoal Club of Baltimore, Annual Exhibition of American Art 1924

Chicago Galleries Association semi-annual 1926-1928

Chicago No-Jury Society of Artists 1922, 1923

Chicago Society of Artists annual 1915, 1923-1925, 1930

Concord Massachusetts Art Association annual 1926

Corcoran Gallery of Art 1923

Grand Central Art Galleries, Guggenheim Winners 1928

Grand Central Art Galleries, Architectural and Allied Arts Exposition[22]

Grand Central Galleries, 100 Significant Paintings by Living Americans 1929[23]

Illinois Academy of Fine Arts annual 1926, 1927

Increase Robinson Studio Gallery, Chicago 1930

Independent Society of Artists, Chicago 1916-1918

Kansas City Art Institute annual 1927

Marshall Field & Co. Gallery 1925

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art 1928

Minnesota State Fair 1922

Minneapolis Museum of Art annual 1924

Nebraska Art Association annual 1927, 1929

Pennsylvania Academy of The Fine Arts annual exhibition 1921-1926, 1929

Renaissance Society, Chicago & Vicinity Artists 1930

Salon des Refuses, Chicago 1921

St. Louis Art Museum, American Annual 1927

Whitney Museum of American Art, Guggenheim Fellows 1933[24]

ONE, TWO OR THREE MAN EXHIBITIONS

1921 Penguin Studio, Chicago[25]

1923 Beard Gallery, Minneapolis

1923 Art Institute of Chicago[26]

1926 Chicago Galleries Association[27]

1927 University of Kansas, Lawrence

1927 Washington Book Company, Chicago[28]

1927 Alden Galleries, Kansas City

1928 Milwaukee Art Museum; Kansas City Art Institute; Brooks Memorial Gallery, Memphis; Indianapolis Museum of Art (1929)[29]

1929 Art Institute of Chicago, memorial[30]

c.1930 Cedar Rapids Art Association

1930 Fifty-Sixth St. Galleries, New York[31]

1930 University of Oklahoma Art School[32]

1931 Increase Robinson Gallery, Chicago[33]

1936 University of Oklahoma, Norman

1937 Katharine Kuh Gallery, Chicago[34]

1953 Riccardo’s Studio Restaurant Gallery, Chicago[35]

1986 Frick Fine Arts Gallery, University of Pittsburgh

1988 ACA Galleries, New York City

PERMANENT COLLECTIONS

Davis Museum at Wellesley College[36]

INTERESTING NOTES

Angarola was known as calm and good natured. He enjoyed painting outdoors. Landscape painting was of special interest to him. Angarola believed the Urban landscape provided great abstract potential from its colors and shapes. Angarola often painted ethnic areas of the city: “one of the most promising young artists Chicago has produced”[37] He was once a judge in the Miss America pageant.

[1]For a review of his work by a contemporary critic see, Hi Simons, “Anthony Angarola, An Appreciation,” The Wave, Vol. 1, No. 4, October 1922, pp. 27-32. For a good review of his career see: C. J. Bulliet, “Artists of Chicago Past and Present,” Chicago Daily News, 9/26/1936, Art, Antiques and The Artists section, p.4R. Critic Eleanor Jewett explained her relationship with the artist in “City Is Full of Fine Art Exhibitions: About Anthony Angarola,” Chicago Tribune, 1/26/1930, p.J6.

[2]He was wounded in an automobile accident at Rambouillet, France and made it back to Chicago dying before unpacking his bags. His obituary suggests he was suffering from a stomach and heart ailment which has been refuted by his son Richard Angarola.

[3]In 1911 he was working as a clerk in the Chicago Public Library. For the year 1916-1917, school records indicate he was awarded a full tuition scholarship.

[4]“Eighty Graduates at Art Institute,” Chicago Tribune, 6/21/1914, p.D4.

[5]Florice Whyte Kovan, Art & Architecture on 1001 Afternoons in Chicago, (Washington, DC: Snickersnee Press, 2002), p.101.

[6]Daniel Catton Rich, “Anthony Angarola,” The American Magazine of Art, November 1932, p.272.

[7]Angarola Guggenheim application, 11/19/1928, p.3, Richard Angarola archives. He taught an outdoor sketch class in the summer of 1922. Eleanor Jewett, “Art And Artists,” Chicago Tribune, 7/2/1922, p.F6.

[8]Letter from Anthony Angarola to Robert Harshe, Harshe Archives, Ryerson Library, Art Institute of Chicago, 11/8/1922 op. cit. Guggenheim application.

[9]“Summer Class Finds Chicago Picturesque,” The Chicago Evening Post Magazine of the Art World, 7/27/1926, p.8.

[10]Art Institute of Chicago Newsletter 8/10/1929. He died before beginning this position which was due to start in September at the beginning of the school year.

[11]For example, in the Carnegie Institute’s exhibition catalogue his 1928 address was 2132 N. Kedzie, Chicago.

[12]One of his works from this travel, Blue Grotto, Capri, was illustrated in The Chicago Evening Post Magazine of the Art World, 2/12/1929, p.3. Another, Café des Chauffeurs, was in the 6/25/1929 issue, p.11; and Cards at Mme. Rose’s, 9/10/1929, p.7.

[13]Untitled newspaper article, Emil Armin Papers, Archives of American Art, Microfilm 1991 25, no. 3770, available in the Ryerson Library, Art Institute of Chicago.

[14]“Art Notes,” Chicago Evening Journal, 5/5/1916, in Art Institute of Chicago scrapbooks, vol. 34, p.64. Louise James Bargelt, “Art,” Chicago Tribune, 4/30/1916, p.G4.

[15]“Honors,” Chicago Tribune, 6/16/1917, p.15.

[16]The prize was awarded his Compassion, see: The Arts, Vol. 2, November, 1921, p.96.

[17]The prize was awarded his Backyard Paradise. Eleanor Jewett, “Art,” Chicago Tribune, 1/30/1921, p.F9.

[18]The prize was awarded his Norwegian Village. Eleanor Jewett, “Art And Artists,” Chicago Tribune, 2/1/1925, p.F6.

[19]Inez Cunningham, “Art by Chicagoans on Display Today; Prizes Are Awarded,” Chicago Tribune, 2/4/1926, p.25. While it is not directly stated, the prize was likely awarded his Little Italy, illustrated in Inez Cunningham, “Art And Artists,” Chicago Tribune, 2/7/1926, p.G4, and also illustrated in the exhibition catalog.

[20]The prize was awarded his Slavish Dwelling, illustrated in Lena M. McCauley, “Three Local Artists Display Originality,” The Chicago Evening Post Magazine of the Art World, 12/28/1926, p.2.

[21]Eleanor Jewett, “News of Art and Artists,” Chicago Tribune, 7/17/1932, part 8, p.2.

[22]The artists were nominated by critics, collectors and museum officals.

[23]“Announce ‘100 Significant Paintings,’ for New york Show,” The Chicago Evening Post Magazine of the Art World, 4/16/1929, p.8.

[24]“New York Notes,” Chicago Daily News, 4/1/1933, Art and Artists section, p.17.

[25]“Art Exhibitions Open,” in “News of the Art World,” supplement, Chicago Evening Post, 10/4/1921, p.11 and op. cit., 1/17/1922, p.11. The gallery specialized in interior furnishings.

[26]Eleanor Jewett, “Art And Artists,” Chicago Tribune, 9/9/1923, p.E12. Eleanor Jewett, “Art And Artists,” Chicago Tribune, 9/23/1923, p.F4.

[27]This exhibition was with William Samuel Schwartz and Minnie Harms Neebe and reviewed by Lena M. McCauley, “Three Local Artists Display Originality,” The Chicago Evening Post Magazine of the Art World, 12/28/1926, p.2. Eleanor Jewett, “Art And Artists,” Chicago Tribune, 12/26/1926, p.G5.

[28]“Anthony Angarola,” The Chicago Evening Post Magazine of the Art World, 11/22/1927, p.7.

[29]“Angarola Paintings Now at Indianapolis,” The Chicago Evening Post Magazine of the Art World, 5/7/1929, p.14. Lucile E. Morehouse, “In the World of Art,” Indianapolis Star, 5/5/1929, in AIC Scrapbooks, Vol. 56, p.74. An exhibition announcement for the circulated show is in the pamphlet files at the Ryerson Library, Art Institute of Chicago.

[30]“New Exhibitions Open Thursday At Institute, Five One-Man Shows,” The Chicago Evening Post Magazine of the Art World, 12/17/1929, p.3. His paintings Bohemian Flats, Kansas City, was illustrated in an untitled newspaper, 12/24/1929, AIC Scrapbooks, Vol. 57, n.p. His Lazaruswas illustrated untitled newspaper, 12/31/1929, AIC Scrapbooks, Vol. 57, n.p. His Self Portrai was illustrated in an untitled newspaper, 1/44/1930, AIC Scrapbooks, Vol. 57, n.p. Eleanor Jewett, “Art Institute Has Show of Work by Staff of Teachers,” Chicago Tribune, 12/19/1929, p.37. His Winter Scene, was illustrated in Eleanor Jewett, “Best of Modernism Seen at Arts Club,” Chicago Tribune, 1/12/1930, p.G4, see also her commentary in “No-Jury Exhibit Turns Conservative: At the Art Institute,”1/19/1930, p.F6.

[31]New York Times, 2/2/1930, Sec. 8, p.13. Dr. F. E. W. Freund, “In New York’s Galleries,” Chicago Daily News-Journal, 2/26/1930, in AIC Scrapbooks, Vol. 57, p.63.

[32]“Angarola on Card of Oklahoma U.,” The Chicago Evening Post Magazine of the Art World, 9/16/1930, p.11.

[33]“Angarola Memorial Opens Thursday At Studio,” The Chicago Evening Post Magazine of the Art World, 2/17/1931, p.3. His Café des Chauffeurs was illustrated with the article. Eleanor Jewett, “Gallery Opens With Paintings by Angarola,” Chicago Tribune, 2/19/1931, p.16, and “Two Memorial Exhibitions: Works of Tennessee Anderson and Anthony Angarola on View Local Galleries,” 2/22/1931, p.H4.

[34]C. J. Bulliet, “Around the Galleries: Angarola Retrospective,” Chicago Daily News, 1/9/1937, Art, Antiques and The Artists section, p.2R. His Ponte Vecchio, was illustrated in the 1/16/1937 issue, p.2R.

[35]Art Digest, Vol. 28, 11/1/1953, p.35.

[36]His Snow Birds was illustrated in Chicago Modern 1893-1945, (Chicago: Terra Museum and University of Chicago Press, 2004), 84.

[37]Daniel Catton Rich, “Chicago Painters,” The American Magazine of Art, February 1932, p.110.