This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  Landscape painter Ada Belle Champlin was born in 1875, in St. Louis, Missouri. After living for some time in Chicago, Illinois, where she attended the Art Institute of Chicago from 1886-1890, she moved to San Diego, California in 1910, then Pasadena, California in 1916, where she painted views of the city. She also had a home in Carmel, and would spend her time between both residences, painting many pictures in Carmel, inspired by the beautiful coastal town. She was part of the founding, in 1927, of the Carmel Art Association.
From the 1920s, Champlin painted primarily California landscapes, though she painted briefly in Zion Canyon, in Utah, in 1935. She had earlier painted landscapes of Galveston, Texas; Cape Cod, Massachusetts; and even Venice, Italy.
Some exhibitions include the Carmel Art Association; California Art Club, Los Angeles; Del Monte Hotel, Monterey; Pasadena Society of Artists; Pasadena Art Institute; Laguna Beach Art Association; Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois; Artists of Chicago; and John Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis, Indiana. Champlin's exhibition career spanned nearly fifty years from early in the century to the late 1940s.
Champlin's art education also included the Art Students League, New York City; the Ipswich School of Arthur W. Dow, in Ipswich, Massachusetts; the Landscape School, Old Lyme, Connecticut; as well as in Europe. Some of her teachers at the various institutions include Henry B. Snell, John Carlson, Charles W. Hawthorne, and Fred Freer.
Ada Belle Champlin died in Pasadena on December 16, 1950.
Source:
Phil Kovinick and Marian Yoshiki Kovinick, "Women Artists of the American West"
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  Born in St Louis, MO on Dec. 25, 1875. Champlin studied at the AIC, ASL in NYC, and Cape Cod School of Art under Hawthorne. After several years in Chicago she moved to southern California in 1910. From San Diego she settled in Pasadena in 1916 and had a second home in Carmel where she was active in the local art scene and a founder of the art association. A spinster, Champlin died in Pasadena on Dec. 16, 1950. Exh: SFAA, 1916; Calif. Art Club, 1917-26; Calif. Liberty Fair, 1918; Painters & Sculptors of LA, 1921; Pasadena Art Inst., 1925, 1927, 1928, 1930; Laguna Beach AA, 1920s; Pasadena Women Painters & Sculptors, 1928; Pasadena Society of Artists, 1934-37. | Source:
Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940"
Southern California Artists (Nancy Moure); Women Artists of the American West; American Art Annual 1909-33; California Arts and Architecture list, 1932; Who's Who in American Art 1936-53; Pasadena Star News, 12-17-1950 (obituary). | | Nearly 20,000 biographies can be found in Artists in California 1786-1940 by Edan Hughes and is available for sale ($150). For a full book description and order information please click here. |
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Ada Champlin is also mentioned in these AskART essays:
The California Art Club
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