John H Carlsen timeline

Carlsen, John [Jack] Harold[1]

BORN: December 16, 1875 Arendal, Norway

DIED: September 10, 1927 Oak Park, IL[2]

MARRIED: Helen Thierer

TRAINING

1904 Art Institute of Chicago, evening commercial art[3]

Chicago Academy of Fine Arts

ART RELATED EMPLOYMENT

1890s Wallpaper and textile designer and illustrator in New York and then Chicago[4]

1920 Designer, Colonial Lamp & Shade Co., Chicago[5]

1919 Four murals Studyand The Fruits of Endeavor, James Wadsworth Elementary School, Chicago[6]

[1]C. H. C., “Jack Carlsen The Viking of Fox Lake,” The Palette & Chisel, Vol. II, No. 5, May 1925, pp.1, 3.

[2]An obituary may be found in The Palette and Chisel, Vol. IV, October 1927, p.2.

[3]In Helen Fletre, “The Palette and Chisel Club of Chicago and its Norwegian American Members, John H. Carlsen,” Handwritten and unpublished paper, no date, the author maintains he studied from 1903 to 1906, we can only confirm 1904 from student records.

[4]Op. cit., The Palette & Chisel, May 1925, p.1, 3.

[5]“The Art Dealers,” in “News Of The Art World,” supplement, Chicago Evening Post, 9/7/1920, p.10.

[6]The Cow Bell, December 1923, taken from op. cit., Fletre, “The Palette and Chisel Club of Chicago and its Norwegian American Members, John H. Carlsen.” Two of the mural compositions are illustrated in op. cit., The Palette & Chisel, May 1925, p.3. See also Heather Becker, Art for the People, (San   Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2002), p.193.