Glen Crawford Sheffer timeline

Sheffer, Glen Crawford[1]

BORN: January 18, 1881 Kendalville (Angola), IN

DIED: September 11, 1948 Chicago[2]

MARRIED: Lenore[3]

TRAINING[4]

1897-c.1901 Denison University[5]

1903-1906[6] J. Francis Smith Art Academy, Chicago[7]

1908 Art Institute of Chicago, evenings with Antonin Sterba

1911 Chicago Academyof Fine Arts, Sundays

Vienna, Hans Larvin

[1]His biography appears in “Glen Sheffer: Commercial Artist Unafraid Tells Why,” The Palette & Chisel, Vol. II, February 1925, p.1. Some information courtesy of Edward Bentley.

[2]“ Glen C. Sheffer, 67, Dies; Artist Known As Figure Painter,” obit., Chicago Tribune, 9/12/1948.

[3]She was a paintings dealer in Chicagoin the 1920s. Advertisement, The Palette & Chisel, Vol. 1, No. 1, February 1924, p.5.

[4]He credited his friendship and association with Walter Dean Goldbeck of the Palette & Chisel club as helping his career immensely. Op. cit., The Palette & Chisel, Vol. February 1925, p.2.

[5]Op. cit., The Palette & Chisel, Vol. February 1925, p.2.

[6]He spent three years there. Op. cit., The Palette & Chisel, Vol. February 1925, p.2.

[7]James W. Pattison, “Pattison’s Art Talk,” Chicago Journal, 12/12/1903. Op. cit., The Palette & Chisel, Vol. February 1925, p.1.