Margaret Artingstall timeline

Artingstall, Margaret[1]

BORN: May 21, 1883[2] Chicago

DIED: February 18, 1951 Chicago

MARRIED: Never

TRAINING

1902-1903 Graduated normal department, 1903-1905 graduated drawings and prints, Art Institute of Chicago[3]

1909, 1923, 1924 Art Institute of Chicago, evenings and summers

ART RELATED EMPLOYMENT

Designed textiles and wallpaper[4]

TEACHING

1900s-1910s Teacher of deaf and dumb children[5]

1924-1951 Art Institute of Chicago, professor of design[6]: 1924-1926 Junior department; 1927-1928 Perspective, evenings; 1927-1928 Object drawing, evenings; 1929-1932 Elementary design, evenings; 1931-1941, 1944-1946, 1950-1951 Industrial Art, 1931-1951 Design; 1932-1936 Industrial design, evenings; 1930-1948 Summers;

1938 Wesleyan Conservatory, Macon, GA

RESIDENCES

1901-1951 Chicago[7]

1938 Macon, Georgia

TRAVEL

MEMBERSHIPS/OFFICES

Art Institute of Chicago (Life Member)

HONORS

1936 Honorary Master of Fine Arts, Art Institute of Chicago

SELECTED JURIES SERVED

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Art Institute of Chicago, American Watercolors 1905

ONE, TWO OR THREE MAN EXHIBITIONS

PERMANENT COLLECTIONS

INTERESTING NOTES

Her father Samuel George Artingstall was a civil engineer and came from Manchester England arriving in Chicago in 1869. He was the assistant city engineer for Chicago Samuel’s name appears in The Book of Chicagoans, 1905. President of the Western Society of Engineers, he was put in charge and designed the general water system, including the pumping stations at Chicago Ave, Lake View, 22nd street and 14th street. He also instituted the first intercepting sewer system and the original river straightening at what is known as Goose Island. He proposed the creation of the Sanitary District of Chicago, later becoming chief engineer. He then became city engineer under Carter Harrison.[8]

[1]Obit., Chicago Tribune, 2/20/1951. Margaret’s parents were Samuel George Artingstall born 1845 at Salford England and Susan Archer born 1849. Samuel George moved to Chicago c.1868 and married Susan Archer in 1874. He later became the City Engineer in Chicago. Information courtesy of Norma Hall who is researching the family.

[2]Birth date taken from death certificate conflicts with other sources, we have used the oldest date.

[3]Letter to Margaret Artingstall from William M. R. French, French Letters, Ryerson Library, Art Institute of Chicago, 6/4/1903. In this letter she was appointed to teach in the Saturday class at the school of the Art Institute of Chicago which was an honor for senior students and carried with it a tuition waiver.

[4]“Margaret Artingstall,” New York Times, obit., 2/20/1951, p.25.

[5]U. S. Census data.

[6]Norman Rice, “A Recollection,” Over a Century. A History of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago 1866-1981, (Chicago: The School of the Art Institute, 1982), p. 21. “The students... could no doubt produce a volume on the beneficent influence of this remarkable teacher. Too limited by arthritis to continue her own work, she channeled her design energies into the task of teaching others. She had impeccable design judgment, which she was able to impart with great skill.”

[7]Census data.

[8]Information taken from his obituary from the Western Society of Engineers, courtesy of the artist’s great niece Alexandra Pena.