Lily C Atkinson timeline
Atkinson, Lily C.
BORN: 1856 Atlanta, IL[1]
DIED: August 28, 1899 Chicago[2]
MARRIED: Never
TRAINING[3]
Largely self taught
Chicago with Henry Arthur Elkins, for a few months
ART RELATED EMPLOYMENT
TEACHING
RESIDENCES
c.1860-1899 Chicago[4]
TRAVEL
MEMBERSHIPS/OFFICES
Palette Club of Chicago
HONORS
SELECTED JURIES SERVED
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Abbott Gallery, Chicago 1892,[5] 1893
A. H. Abbott & Co. Gallery, Chicago, flower paintings 1896[6], 1897
Art Institute of Chicago, American Annual 1896
Chicago Society of Artists annual 1890
Inter-State Industrial Exposition 1878, 1886
Palette Club of Chicago annual 1891-1895
Thayer and Chandler, Chicago, Annual China Exhibition 1898
World’s Columbian Exposition, Illinois Woman’s Exposition Board Exhibit 1893
ONE, TWO OR THREE MAN EXHIBITIONS
1897 Abbott Gallery, Chicago[7]
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
INTERESTING NOTES
She specialized in floral subjects and received praise for them in the local press.[8] Her paintings were published as art supplements in various Chicago Sunday papers, mostly during 1895.[9] Of he subject matter she said, “When I have been watching them [flowers] in the florists’ windows until their characteristics of form, color and all have strongly impressed me, then painting them is easy.”[10]
[1]Information courtesy of Luanne Edwards, who is a relative of the artist.
[2]She is buried in Rosehill Cemetery.
[3]“Art and Artists,” The Graphic, Vol. 6, No. 22, 5/28/1892, pp. 398.
[4]A photograph of her in 1892, suggests a woman of about thirty-five years of age, op. cit., The Graphic, 5/28/1892, pp. 398.
[5]“The Fine Arts,” Chicago Tribune, 12/11/1892, p.45.
[6]Isabel McDougall, “Art and Artists,” Chicago Evening Post, 5/23/1896, p.10.
[7]Art Institute of Chicago Scrapbooks, vol. 8, p.136.
[8]See for example “Fine Pictures Here,” Chicago Evening Post, 8/15/1890, p.5 and op. cit., The Graphic, 5/28/1892, pp. 399.
[9]“Lily C. Atkinson,” Chicago Times-Herald, 9/3/1899.
[10]Op. cit., The Graphic, 5/28/1892, pp. 399.