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| A silversmith and art educator in Chicago, Bessie Bennett was a
graduate of the Art
Institute of Chicago and then was employed at the Art Institute, first
as
assistant to the Director of textiles and decorative objects and later
as Curator of Decorative Art.
According to the bulletin of the Art Institute, October 1907, she, when
assistant to the Director, toured France by automobile for
two months studying French faience, wood carvings, tapestries and
ecclesiastical scultpture.
In 1894, she was part of the reorganization of The Decorative Art Society of Chicago.
In Chicago, she was unique as a professional female of her era because
she had her own metalworking studio, which was located in the downtown
near the Kalo Shop, a leather product studio, well known
during the Arts and Crafts era of the early 20th Century.
She died in 1939. A Bessie Bennett Endowment Fund was established in her memory at the Art Institute.
Sources:
Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago, October 1907.
Internet: Google Books
http://www.chicagosilver.com/wilro.htm
Peter Hastings Falk, Editor, Who Was Who in American Art
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