Sam H Avery timeline

BORN: July 21, 1885 Newark, OH

DIED:

MARRIED:

TRAINING

Kalamazoo Institute of Art

1915 Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, evenings

ART RELATED EMPLOYMENT

Engraver

TEACHING

RESIDENCES

c.1905- c.1971 Chicago

TRAVEL

MEMBERSHIPS/OFFICES

Palette & Chisel Club

HONORS

1927 Purchase prize, Chicago Galleries Association

1932 William Randolph Hearst Prize, Art Institute, Chicago & Vicinity[1]

Prize, Illinois Academy of Fine Art

SELECTED JURIES SERVED

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Art Institute of Chicago, Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture by Artists Who Received Prizes In the Chicago Exhibitions for 1930, 1931, 1932, 7/21/1932

Chicago Galleries Association, Artists of the Midwest 1933[2]

Chicago Galleries Association 1926-1931

Illinois Academy of Fine Arts annual 1928, 1931

Palette & Chisel Club

ONE, TWO OR THREE MAN EXHIBITIONS

PERMANENT COLLECTIONS

INTERESTING NOTES

He had to give up art when the Federal Art Project ended.[3]

[1]His painting Melting Snow, was illustrated in Art Digest, 2/1/1932, p.32. “Chicago Show Prizes,” Chicago Evening Post, 2/2/1932, Art Section, p.5.

[2]Eleanor Jewett, “Spring Show of 7 Painters Wins Praise,” Chicago Tribune, 4/8/1933, p.21; and “Brilliant Showing of Paintings by Seven Artists Now Being Featured at the Chicago Galleries,” 4/16/1933, part 8, p.6.

[3]Inteview by Esther Sparks of Peter Pollack, 2/1971, in possession of author.