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|  Laura van Pappelendam was born February 10, 1883, in Donnellson, Iowa,
growing up in Keokuk, Iowa. She had a nearly life-long
association with the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, as student,
artist and teacher. She studied from 1904-1909 at the School of
the Art Institute, continuing with classes until she received a
Bachelor of Arts degree in art education in 1926. She won
honorable mentions in 1910-1912, and 1917.
Van Pappelendam
gained a doctorate in 1929 from the University of Chicago. She
taugt at the Art Institute for fifty years, from 1909-1959. She
also had an extended tenure at the University of Chicago, teaching from
1918-1948. For a time, she also taught summer classes at Illinois
State Normal School (now Illinois State University).
The artist
lived and worked in Chicago until 1962, moving to Tucson, Arizona,
until 1966, when illness forced her into a convalescent home in Pico
Rivera, California. Her last years were passed in a Downey, California,
convalescent home. She died February 10, 1974, in Norwalk,
California, on her ninety-first birthday.
Despite her enormous
teaching load, Van Pappelendam was somehow a very productive artist,
painting mainly during the summer months and when on a leave from the
Art Institute. Her work, executed mainly in oil, included
impressionistic landscapes, flowers and views of everyday life.
Some of her painting locations include Chicago and Normal, Illinois,
1909-1915; Provincetown, Massachusetts, 1916; Mexico, in 1928-1936,
where she studied with Diego Rivera in 1930; Europe, 1937, 1958-1960;
and Keokuk, Iowa, 1938-1940.
She also painted extensively in
the American Southwest, including Colorado, 1917; and California,
1918-1919, 1941, 1949, 1956-1957. She painted in Arizona, Utah,
Nevada and Santa Fe, New Mexico, from 1920-1927. Perhaps her most
important paintings during the 1950s were created in northern New
Mexico, from 1950-1955.
During her long and varied career, she
encountered a number of artists with large reputations, when a student
and after, who influenced her work, including George Bellows, Joaquin
Sorolla y Bastida, Kenyon Cox, Charles W. Hawthorne, Nicholas Roerich,
Karl Buehr, and Charles Francis Browne.
Laura van Pappelendam's
works are in the collections of the Illinois State Museum, Springfield;
University of Chicago; John H. Vanderpoel Memorial Art Gallery,
Chicago; Art Institute of Chicago; Lee County Historical Society, Keokuk, Iowa; and Art League, Oak Park, Illinois
The
U.S. Embassy Residence in Dublin, Ireland, exhibited her work for an
extended period from 1957-1961, but Chicago was the center of her art
exhibition experience with most of the two hundred fifty shows in which
she participated taking place there.
However, just as her painting travels ranged widely, so, too, her exhibitions in
New
York City venues like the Whitney Museum of American Art, Riverside
Museum, and Academy of Allied Arts; as well as the City Art Museum, St.
Louis; Women Painters of America, Wichita, Kansas; Sesquicentennial
International Exposition, Philadelphia; Women's International
Exposition, Detroit; Kansas City Art Institute, Missouri; Carnegie
Institute, Pittsburgh; New Jersey State Museum, Trenton; Museum of New
Mexico, Santa Fe; and National College of Art, Dublin.
References
to the life and art of Laura van Pappelendam include: Who Was Who in
American Art; Petteys; Trenton; Dawdy 3; Sparks; Jacobson; Gilmore;
Antiques and Fine Art, Apr 1991; Chicago Evening Post, 12 Apr 1927;
Daily Gate City (Keokuk), 23 Apr 1927, 25 Aug 1967, 14 Feb 1974;
Chicago Tribune, 17 Jul 1960; US Census 1900, Lee County, IA, ED 65, pg
20; death certificate; E. M. De Rosear, 1989; E. V. McLeod (niece),
1992.
Source:
Phil Kovinick and Marian Yoshiki Kovinick, An Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West"
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