 Nina Evans is primarily known as Nina Evans (Alexander) Allender
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
| Active in Washington DC in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and later in Chicago and Plainfield, New Jersey, Nina Allender was an officer to the DC Art Students League and was a charter member of the Washington Art Club. Other memberships were the Society of Washington Artists and the Watercolor Club.
Allender was official cartoonist for the National Women's Party for whom she was official cartoonist. Among her cartoons were The Suffragist and Equal Rights.
She studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Art and the Corcoran School of Art and in London with Frank Brangwyn.
Exhibition venues included the Cosmos Club, Library of Congress, Society Washington Artists, Washington Watercolor Club, Washington Art Club, and the National Academy of Design in New York.
Source:
Peter Hastings Falk, Editor, Who Was Who in American Art
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Memberships:
Washington Society of Artists. |
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
| Born Auburn and 1872; died 1957, Nina Allender was a painter and illustrator. Studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. She was a student of William Merritt Chase and Robert Henri. She also studied in London with Frank Brangwyn. She produced cartoons related to women’s suffrage.
In 1948, she lived in Washington, DC. | Source:
MEMBERSHIPS:
Washington Society of Artists.
SOURCES:
Susan Craig, "Biographical Dictionary of Kansas Artists (active before 1945)"
Fielding, Mantle. Mantle Fielding’s Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors and Engravers, with an Addendum containing Corrections and Additional Material on the Original Entries. Compiled by James F. Carr. New York: James F. Carr Publ., 1965.; Sain, Lydia. Kansas Artists, compiled by Lydia Sain from 1932 to 1948. Typed Manuscript, 1948.; Newlin, Gertrude Dix (Development of Art in Kansas. Typed Manuscript, 1951), Gertrude Dix (Development of Art in Kansas. Typed Manuscript, 1951); American Art Annual. New York: American Federation of Arts, 1898-1947 12, 14, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26; Studies in American Humor (Spring/Summer 1985); Reinbach, Edna, comp. “Kansas Art and Artists”, in Collections of the Kansas State Historical Society. v. 17, 1928. p. 571-585., Edna, comp. “Kansas Art and Artists”, in Collections of the Kansas State Historical Society. v. 17, 1928. p. 571-585. | | 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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