Elizabeth Livingston Steele Adams timeline
Adams, Elizabeth Livingston Steele[1]
BORN: Albany, NY
DIED:
MARRIED:Egerton Adams[2]
TRAINING
1881-1882[3], 1897, 1900-1901 Art Institute of Chicago
1880s Florence; Rome[4]
1880s Paris, Charles Emile Carolus-Duran and Jean Jacques Henner[5]
1908 William P. Henderson summer school, Lake Bluff, IL[6]
Art Students League of New York
ART RELATED EMPLOYMENT
1891 Louis H. Prang and Co., designer[7]
1892-1893 General Committee for the Woman’s branch of the auxiliary on the organization of art congresses, World’s Columbian Exposition[8]
1892 Authored Beauty of Form and Grace of Vesture[9]
TEACHING
RESIDENCES
1881-1895 Chicago
c.1905 Paris
c.1914 Chicago
TRAVEL
1890 Paris
c.1891 Cushing Island, ME[10]
1898 Europe[11]
MEMBERSHIPS/OFFICES
Bohemian Art Club[12] [later known as the Palette Club] (president 1881-1885)
HONORS
Associazione Artistica Internationale, Rome[13] (one of first woman artists elected)
SELECTED JURIES SERVED
Arché Club Salon 1896[14]
Palette Club annual exhibition 1895[15]
United Annual Exhibition of the Palette Club and the Cosmopolitan Art Club, Art Institute of Chicago 1895
GROUP EXHIBITIONS[16]
American Watercolor Society annual 1882, 1883,[17] 1884,[18] ten years total
Art Institute of Chicago, American Watercolors 1891, 1894, 1895
Art Institute, Chicago and Vicinity 1914
Boston Art Club 1884,[19] 1894, 1895
Brooklyn Art Association 1882[20]
Inter-State Industrial Exposition 1887[21]
National Academy of Design annual 1883
New York Watercolor Society[22] 1881, 1882,[23]
Paris Salon 1898[24]
World’s Columbian Exposition, Woman’s Building, Department K, Fine Arts[25]
[1]For background on the artist see: “Chicago Lady Artists,” Chicago Tribune, 7/4/1886, p.1. In “Artists Of Talent,” Chicago Evening Post, 5/8/1891, p.5, she is noted as descended from the Livingston family of New York and Governor Bradford who came over on the Mayflower.
[2]He was president of Chicago Forge and Bolt and of American Bridge Works in Chicago.
[3]Prospectus and Catalogue of the Schools of the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, 1882-83, “Names of Pupils,” [p.9], AIC Scrapbooks, Vol. 3, n.p. This also confirmed her Chicago residence.
[4]“Chicago Palette Club,” The Graphic, Date unknown, inferred from several facts 1890, IHAP Library.
[5]Op. cit., Chicago Evening Post, 5/8/1891, p.5.
[6]“Art And Artists, Chicago Evening Post, 6/27/1908, p.4.
[7]Op. cit., Chicago Evening Post, 5/8/1891, p.5.
[8]“When the Artists Get Together,” Chicago Tribune, 1/2/1892, in AIC Scrapbooks, Vol. 5, p.74. “When The Artists Get Together,” Times (Chicago), 1/2/1892.
[9]The book was apparently authored with her sister Francis Mary Steele, (NY: Dodd, Mead and company).
[10]Op. cit., Chicago Evening Post, 5/8/1891, p.5.
[11]“Art,” Sunday Chicago Tribune, 5/29/1898, p.32.
[12]Her photograph appears with an article on the organization in op.cit., Chicago Evening Post, 5/8/1891, p.5.
[13]Op. cit., Chicago Evening Post, 5/8/1891, p.5.
[14]“In The Art Studios,” Chicago Tribune, 12/22/1895, p.29. “Arche Club Awards,” Chicago Evening Post, 2/22/1896, p.1.
[15]“Art And The Artists,” Chicago Evening Post, 12/7/1895, p.10.
[16]In op. cit., Chicago Sunday Tribune, 7/4/1886, p.1, it was state she exhibited in “all the well known galleries of the East and Chicago.”
[17]“Studio and Gallery,” Chicago Tribune, 3/4/1883, p.13.
[18]“Art Notes,” Chicago Tribune, 4/5/1884, p.9.
[19]“Art Notes,” Chicago Tribune, 5/11/1884, p.16.
[20]“Art In Chicago,” Chicago Tribune, 3/19/1882, p.10.
[21]“The Chicago Artists,” Chicago Tribune, 10/24/1887, p.4.
[22]“Art And Artists,” Daily Inter Ocean, 3/31/1883, p.3.
[23]“Notes from the Galleries and Studios,” Chicago Tribune, 2/5/1882, p.7. See also, “Art Notes,” Chicago Tribune, 4/5/1884, p.9.
[24]“Art,” Sunday Chicago Tribune, 5/29/1898, p.32.
[25]There are several misspellings in the official catalogue and we expect the entry as Mrs. G. P. Adams was hers. Department of Publicity and Promotion, Editor, Official Catalogue of Exhibits. World’s Columbian Exposition. Woman’s Building. Part XIV, (Chicago : W.B. Conkey, revised edition, 1893), Dept. K: Fine Arts, p.41.