BORN: March 27, 1865 Bergen, Norway

DIED: May 19, 1934 Chicagoi

MARRIED: Unknownii

TRAINING

c.1885 Norway, Hans Heyerdahliii

Académie Julian with Jules-Joseph Lefèbvre

1905 Chicago Academy of Fine Arts with Lawton S. Parker

ART RELATED EMPLOYMENT

TEACHING

RESIDENCES

1865-1893 Norway

1893iv-1934 Chicagov

1898, 1900-1903, c.1903-1907 New York Cityvi

TRAVELvii

1897 Milwaukee (summer)viii

1919 Norway and Sweden

MEMBERSHIPS/OFFICES

Arts Club of Chicago; Chicago Ceramic Club; Chicago Galleries Association; Woman’s Club of New York City

HONORS

SELECTED JURIES SERVED

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

American Fine Arts Society

Chicago Ceramic Club under auspices of Chicago Architectural Club annual, Art Institute of Chicago, 1895

New York Society of Miniature Painters

ONE, TWO OR THREE MAN EXHIBITIONS

1897 Anderson Galleries, Chicago, miniaturesix

1898 New York City, miniaturesx

1899 Anderson Galleries, Chicago, miniaturesxi

1905 Anderson Galleries, Chicago, portraitsxii

1906 New York City, miniaturesxiii

1919 1556 Dearborn, Chicago, miniaturesxiv

1926 Anderson Galleries, Chicagoxv

1928 Carson, Pirie, Scott & Co. Galleryxvi

1930 Bryn Mawr Woman’s Club, Chicagoxvii

1933-1934 Chicago Galleries Associationxviii

PERMANENT COLLECTIONS

INTERESTING NOTES

She was primarily a portrait and miniature painter and had several celebrities and those of the social elite sit for her work. For many years she lived in Tree Studioxix and perhaps it was this same studio that was “one of the finest in the city.”xx Some of her subjects included the Armour family of Chicago and the Andrew Mellon family. xxi

iShe died after a brief illness, obit., New York Times, 5/22/1934.

iiInformation from her death certificate states she was never married. However, in “Who’s Who in The Artists’ Guild,”

Annual Report of the Artists’ Guild, (Chicago: The Artists’ Guild, 1917), p.79, she is listed as “(MRS.).

iii“About The Studios,” Sunday Inter Ocean, Vol. XXII, No. 245, 11/26/1893, Part 3, p.27.

ivOp. cit., Sunday Inter Ocean, 11/26/1893, p.27. Isabel McDougall, “Art And Artists,” Chicago Evening Post, 5/29/1897, p.10.

vFrom c.1905 to 1927 she maintained a studio in Paris and Chicago. We assume the war years are excluded. “Carol Aus Paints in Rare Studio,” Milwaukee Journal, 8/19/1924. She spent one five year stretch in Paris from 1919 to 1924. The article goes on to say she purchased Signorina’s studio in Montparnasse and refurbished it from the war damage.

viLena M. McCauley, “Art,” Chicago Evening Post, 9/7/1907, p.9. See also: “Here And There,” Arts For America, Vol. 7, No. 8, April 1898, p.498. The article states she might reside permanently in New York given her reception there. A later article, in the same journal, Vol. 8, No. 7, 5/1/1899, recounted her return to Chicago, p.407.

viiThat she had a studio in Paris was noted in Marguerite Williams, “Here and There in the Art World: Carol Aus’ Portraits,” Chicago News, 10/24/1928 in AIC Scrapbooks, Vol. 55, p.96.

viiiIsabel McDougall, “Art And Artists,” Chicago Evening Post, 9/11/1897, p.10.

ix“Chicago Art and Artists,” Sunday Inter Ocean, 5/30/1897, p.35; “In The Art Studios,” Sunday Chicago Tribune, 5/3/1897, p.36; Op. cit., McDougall, Chicago Evening Post, 5/29/1897, p.10.

x“Art,” Sunday Times-Herald, 3/20/1898, p.33.

xi“Art,” Sunday Chicago Tribune, 4/16/1899, p.35.

xii“Chicago’s Exhibits,” Detroit Mich. News, 4/22/1905 in Art Institute of Chicago Scrapbooks, vol. 21. Her portrait of Mrs. F. O. Lowden was illustrated in Lena M. McCauley, “Art,” Chicago Evening Post, 5/27/1905, p.9.

xiiiLena M. McCauley, “Art and Artists,” Chicago Evening Post, 4/14/1906, p.9.

xiv“Miss Carol Aus is Here,” in “News Of The Art World,” supplement, Chicago Evening Post, 2/25/1919, p.11.

xvHer portrait of Arthur W. Cutten, was illustrated in The Chicago Evening Post Magazine of the Art World, 3/23/1926, p.2.

xviArt News, Vol. 27, 11/24/1928, p.25. Her portrait of Arthur Cutten, was illustrated in The Chicago Evening Post Magazine of the Art World, 10/9/1928, p.2 and the show announced in “Portraits by Carol Aus to Be Shown at Carson’s Oct. 24; Other Exhibits Planned,” p.7. Her portrait of Bernard E. Sunny, was illustrated in the 10/16/1928 issue, p.6. Her portrait of Martha Louise Dunbar was illustrated in the 10/23/1928 issue, p.5. See also: “Aus Portraits,” in the 10/30/1928 issue, p.2.

xvii“At Bryn Mawr Woman’s Club,” The Chicago Evening Post Magazine of the Art World, 3/11/1930, p.2

xviiiC. J. Bulliet, “Around the Galleries: Three Chicagoans to Exhibit,” Chicago Daily News, 12/30/1933, Art Section, [p.28.] C. J. Bulliet, “Around the Picture Galleries: Of Conservative Strain,” Chicago Daily News, 1/13/1934, Art Section, p.24.

xix“Where Art Is Queen Of All,” Chicago Tribune, 2/23/1896, p.27.

xxUntitled clipping from the Decorah-Posten, 6/1/1934, IHAP Library. On of her portraits is illustrated in the New York Public Library Artist File, A306/A2.

xxi“Aus, Carol (1868-1934),” Old Fort News, Vol. 42, No. 4, 1979, p.118.