Frederick T Larson timeline

BORN: April 19,  1868 Chicago

DIED: November 2, 1944 Chicago[1]

MARRIED: Hanna Larson

TRAINING

Chicago Public Schools

1894-1906, 1914-1915 Art Institute of Chicago, evenings

ART RELATED EMPLOYMENT

1883-1884 Apprenticed to Shober and Carqueville Company, Chicago, wood engravers[2]

1884-1891 Apprenticed to master engraver, Goerge W. Melville[3]

c.1891-1928 Pontiac Engraving Company

1920s Series of catalogue illustrations, Williams and Cunningham, client – Westclox, LaSalle,  Illinois[4]

1928-1944 Owned studio specializing in wood engravings[5]

1938 Wood Engraving, Black Cat Press, Chicago

[1]The Palette & Chisel Club of Chicago, of which he was a founding member, shows incorrect years of living from 1871-1937.

[2]“Fred T. Larson Wood Engraver,” The Palette & Chisel, Vol. III, September, 1926.

[3]Op. cit., The Palette & Chisel, September, 1926.

[4]Op. cit., The Palette & Chisel, September, 1926.

[5]Helen Fletre, “Fred T. Larson,” The Palette and Chisel Club of Chicago and its Norwegian American Members, Unpublished paper, IHAP Library, no date, unpaginated.