ILLINOIS HISTORICAL ART PROJECT
Armstrong, Louise Van Voorhis
BORN:
DIED:
MARRIED: Yes after 1905, possibly to Harry Armstrong
TRAINING
c.1900 University of Michigan
Art Institute of Chicago: 1892; 1902-1903 Allen E. Philbrick; 1902 summer antique; 1903 Louis W. Wilson; 1904 John C. Johansen; 1904-1905 Thomas W. Stevens; 1911 Fred D. Schook
1903 Delavan Summer Art School, John H. Vanderpoeli
ART RELATED EMPLOYMENT
TEACHING
RESIDENCES
1902-1911 Chicago
1905 Evanston, Illinois
1923-1938 Manistee, Michigan
TRAVEL
MEMBERSHIPS/OFFICES
Art Institute of Chicago Alumni Association (vice president 1922-1923)ii
HONORS
1903, 1904 Honorable Mention, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
SELECTED JURIES SERVED
Art Institute of Chicago, Alumni Retrospective 1923
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Art Institute, Chicago and Vicinity 1919
Art Institute of Chicago, American Watercolor 1920
ONE, TWO OR THREE MAN EXHIBITIONS
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
INTERESTING NOTES
iChicago Evening Post, 6/22/1903 in Art Institute of Chicago Scrapbooks, vol. 18, p.134.
iiShe wrote a humorous play for the annual meeting which was discussed in “Art Abandoned,” “News Of The Art World,” supplement, Chicago Evening Post, 2/21/1922. See also, “Stars In Play Of Artists’ Society,” Chicago Evening Post, 3/30/1922 in Art Institute of Chicago Scrapbooks, vol. 43.