Carol Aus timeline
BORN: March 27, 1865 Bergen, Norway
DIED: May 19, 1934 Chicago[1]
MARRIED: Unknown[2]
TRAINING
c.1885 Norway, Hans Heyerdahl[3]
Académie Julian with Jules-Joseph Lefèbvre
1905 Chicago Academy of Fine Arts with Lawton S. Parker
ART RELATED EMPLOYMENT
TEACHING
RESIDENCES
1865-1893 Norway
1893[4]-1934 Chicago[5]
1898, 1900-1903, c.1903-1907 New York City[6]
TRAVEL[7]
1897 Milwaukee (summer)[8]
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
Arts Club of Chicago 1930-1932
Chicago Ceramic Club under auspices of Chicago Architectural Club annual, Art Institute of Chicago, 1895
Chicago Galleries Association annual 1933
New York Society of Miniature Painters
Woman’s World Fair, Chicago 1928
ONE, TWO OR THREE MAN EXHIBITIONS
1897 Anderson Galleries, Chicago, miniatures[9]
1898 New York City, miniatures[10]
1899 Anderson Galleries, Chicago, miniatures[11]
1905 Anderson Galleries, Chicago, portraits[12]
1906 New York City, miniatures[13]
1919 1556 Dearborn, Chicago, miniatures[14]
1926 Anderson Galleries, Chicago[15]
1928 Carson, Pirie, Scott & Co. Gallery[16]
1930 Bryn Mawr Woman’s Club, Chicago[17]
1933-1934 Chicago Galleries Association[18]
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 Studio[19] and perhaps it was this same studio that was “one of the finest in the city.”[20] Some of her subjects included the Armour family of Chicago and the Andrew Mellon family. [21]
[1]She died after a brief illness, obit., New York Times, 5/22/1934.
[2]Information 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.).
[3]“About The Studios,” Sunday Inter Ocean, Vol. XXII, No. 245, 11/26/1893, Part 3, p.27.
[4]Op. cit., Sunday Inter Ocean, 11/26/1893, p.27. Isabel McDougall, “Art And Artists,” Chicago Evening Post, 5/29/1897, p.10.
[5]From 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.
[6]Lena 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.
[7]That 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.
[8]Isabel McDougall, “Art And Artists,” Chicago Evening Post, 9/11/1897, p.10.
[9]“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.
[10]“Art,” Sunday Times-Herald, 3/20/1898, p.33.
[11]“Art,” Sunday Chicago Tribune, 4/16/1899, p.35.
[12]“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.
[13]Lena M. McCauley, “Art and Artists,” Chicago Evening Post, 4/14/1906, p.9.
[14]“Miss Carol Aus is Here,” in “News Of The Art World,” supplement, Chicago Evening Post, 2/25/1919, p.11.
[15]Her portrait of Arthur W. Cutten, was illustrated in The Chicago Evening Post Magazine of the Art World, 3/23/1926, p.2.
[16]Art 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.
[17]“At Bryn Mawr Woman’s Club,” The Chicago Evening Post Magazine of the Art World, 3/11/1930, p.2
[18]C. 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.
[19]“Where Art Is Queen Of All,” Chicago Tribune, 2/23/1896, p.27.
[20]Untitled 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.
[21]“Aus, Carol (1868-1934),” Old Fort News, Vol. 42, No. 4, 1979, p.118.