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| Artist and Teacher, Ada Bertha Caldwell, was born on the 29th of September 1869 in Bryan, Ohio. She grew up in Lincoln, Nebraska, and with the goal of being an artist and teacher she attended the University of Nebraska for two years. She followed these studies for four years at the Art Institute of Chicago, graduating in 1897.
Her teaching career was spent at Yankton College (1898-1899) and South Dakota State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, Brookings (1899-1936). Caldwell spent her vacations and sabbaticals enriching her art studies. She attended Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, Columbia University Teachers College, the Art Students League, New York School of Design, Woodstock Landscape School, University of California-Berkeley, and Broadmoor Art Academy.
Ada Caldwell painted still-lifes, portraits and landscapes; she worked in oils, watercolors and graphics. Her work can be found in the South Dakota Art Center in Brookings.
Credits: "An Encyclopedia of Women Artists of the American West" by Phil Kovinick and Marian Yoshiki-Kovinick
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
| Lived in Cleveland, OH in 1880. Caldwell grew up in Lincoln, NE, and attended the Univ. of Nebraska for two years. She studied for four years at the Art Institute of Chicago, graduating in 1897. Her teaching career was spent at Yankton College in Yankton, SD from 1898-1899 and she founded the Dept. of Art at South Dakota State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts in Brookings where she taught from 1899-1936. Caldwell spent her vacations and sabbaticals enriching her art studies. She attended Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, Columbia Univ. Teachers College, the Art Students League, New York School of Design, Woodstock Landscape School, the Univ. of California at Berkeley, and at the Broadmoor Art Academy. She also studied at Bethany College in Lindsborg, Kansas from 1928-29 as a pupil of Birger Sandzén. Caldwell painted still-lifes, portraits and landscapes; she worked in oils, watercolors and graphics.
Exhibitions: Art Students League of Chicago, 1894. Collections: South Dakota Art Center in Brookings. | Source:
SOURCES:
Susan Craig, "Biographical Dictionary of Kansas Artists (active before 1945)"
Art Students at Bethany; AskART, www.askart.com, accessed June 22, 2009; Nebraska State Census 1885; US Federal Census 1880, 1910, 1930. | | This and over 1,750 other biographies can be found in Biographical Dictionary of Kansas Artists (active before 1945) compiled by Susan V. Craig, Art & Architecture Librarian at University of Kansas. |
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