This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  Although she focused on printmaking during much of career as an artist, Ada Gilmore Chaffee was also a painter.
Gilmore was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan in 1883. Before reaching the
age of twelve, she and her three siblings became orphans. The four
children moved to Ireland where they were raised by their aunt in
Belfast. She first attended the Belfast School of Design, and later
studied at the Art Institute of Chicago. She received instruction from
Robert Henri, a painter and printmaker known for his portraits and
genre pieces, in 1912. Henri was also the instructor of Oliver
Newberry Chaffee, whom Gilmore later married during the 1920s.
Beginning in 1913, she obtained additional instruction in France from
Ethel Mars, after being exposed to Mars’s color woodcut artwork at an
exhibition.
She returned to the United States with the start of World War I, and
began living and working in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Gilmore’s
prints were displayed in San Francisco at the Panama-Pacific
International Exposition in 1915, as well as the Berlin Photographic
Company and the New York Watercolor Club in New York City.
She traveled to France in 1923 for a reunion with her former institutor
and friend, Ethel Mars. During her time in Vence, France, she became
reacquainted with Oliver Chaffee, and the two married. Profoundly
inspired by the Modern style of artwork produced by Oliver Chaffee and
circle of artists with whom he was associated, which included Marsden
Hartley, Jules Pascin, and Albert Gleizes, Gilmore began to replace
printmaking with painting. She continued painting for the remainder of
her career.
Submitted by Jenna Wuensche, Researcher
Source:
Jules Heller and Nancy G. Heller, North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  Ada Gilmore Chaffee was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan in 1883.
After her mother's death at age eight and her father's death at age
twelve she went to Belfast, Ireland where she lived with aunt. In
Belfast she studied at the Belfast School of Art in Northern Ireland.
In
1900 she returned to the United States and continued her art studies at
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Gilmore exhibited at
the Independent Artist group show in New York City in 1910.
In
1913 the artist traveled to Paris and studied wood-block printing with
Ethel Mars. Due to World War I the artist returned to the United States
and settled in Provincetown, Massachusetts in 1915. She exhibited
at the first exhibition of the Provincetown Art Association and Museum
in 1915.
Ada Gilmore, though known for her woodblock prints
that use watercolor, also painted watercolors of town scenes and people
at work.
Gilmore is a founding member of the Provincetown Printers (1918), the first woodblock print society in America.
Ada Gilmore died in Provincetown in 1955.
Source:
American Artist, July 2002 |
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San Francisco Panama-Pacific Exhibition 1915
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