BORN: 1856 Atlanta, ILi

DIED: August 28, 1899 Chicagoii

MARRIED: Never

TRAININGiii

Largely self taught

Chicago with Henry Arthur Elkins, for a few months

ART RELATED EMPLOYMENT

TEACHING

RESIDENCES

c.1860-1899 Chicagoiv

TRAVEL

MEMBERSHIPS/OFFICES

Palette Club of Chicago

HONORS

SELECTED JURIES SERVED

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Abbott Gallery, Chicago 1892,v 1893

A. H. Abbott & Co. Gallery, Chicago, flower paintings 1896vi, 1897

Art Institute of Chicago, American Annual 1896

Chicago Society of Artists annual 1890

Inter-State Industrial Exposition 1878, 1886

Palette Club of Chicago annual 1891-1895

Thayer and Chandler, Chicago, Annual China Exhibition 1898

World’s Columbian Exposition, Illinois Woman’s Exposition Board Exhibit 1893

ONE, TWO OR THREE MAN EXHIBITIONS

1897 Abbott Gallery, Chicagovii

PERMANENT COLLECTIONS

INTERESTING NOTES

She specialized in floral subjects and received praise for them in the local press.viii Her paintings were published as art supplements in various Chicago Sunday papers, mostly during 1895.ix Of he subject matter she said, “When I have been watching them [flowers] in the florists’ windows until their characteristics of form, color and all have strongly impressed me, then painting them is easy.”x

iInformation courtesy of Luanne Edwards, who is a relative of the artist.

iiShe is buried in Rosehill Cemetery.

iii“Art and Artists,” The Graphic, Vol. 6, No. 22, 5/28/1892, pp. 398.

ivA photograph of her in 1892, suggests a woman of about thirty-five years of age, op. cit., The Graphic, 5/28/1892, pp. 398.

v“The Fine Arts,” Chicago Tribune, 12/11/1892, p.45.

viIsabel McDougall, “Art and Artists,” Chicago Evening Post, 5/23/1896, p.10.

viiArt Institute of Chicago Scrapbooks, vol. 8, p.136.

viiiSee for example “Fine Pictures Here,” Chicago Evening Post, 8/15/1890, p.5 and op. cit., The Graphic, 5/28/1892, pp. 399.

ix“Lily C. Atkinson,” Chicago Times-Herald, 9/3/1899.

xOp. cit., The Graphic, 5/28/1892, pp. 399.