Enella Benedict

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Enella Benedict: William Tomlinson Plant, 1885, Health Sciences Library, Upstate Medical University

Enella Benedict (born December 21, 1858 in Lake Forest , Illinois , † April 6, 1942 in Richmond , Virginia ) was an American landscape painter of realism . She taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and was a co-founder and director of the art school at Hull House for nearly 50 years .

Life

Enella Benedict was born in Lake Forest, Illinois in 1858, the daughter of clothing retailers Amzi Benedict and Catherine Walmath Benedict. Her father, Amzi Benedict, was a member of Lake Forest City Council and later also mayor of the city. She had four younger siblings, Caroline, Albert, Sydney and Kate.

Enella Benedict attended Lake Forest College , where she studied painting and drawing, graduating in 1877. She then studied art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Students League of New York . She then traveled to Paris to continue studying at the Académie Julian .

Benedict mainly painted portraits with oil and water colors as well as paintings with figures, landscapes and urban scenes. Her painting and drawing style was influenced by realism and impressionism , whereby she painted things that she encountered in everyday life, as well as residents of the Hull House and other people living in the village, especially farmers with landscapes or the lake in the background.

In 1892 she founded the art school at Hull House, of which she became the director.

Enella Benedict died on April 6, 1942, at the age of 83 in Richmond , Virginia .

gallery

  • Enella Benedict: Brittany Children , 1892, exhibited at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition , now in the National Museum of Women in the Arts

  • Enella Benedict: Edith , 1895, Jane Addams Hull-House Museum

literature

  • Cheryl Ganz, Margaret Strobel: Pots of Promise: Mexicans and Pottery at Hull-House, 1920–40 . University of Illinois Press, Illinois 2004, 128 pages ( preview )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Persons Honored in the Painted Portraits on Display in the Health Sciences Library ( Memento of the original from March 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Upstate Medical University. Retrieved March 11, 2014.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / library.upstate.edu
  2. ↑ Biography of Enella Benedict (English) in: Cheryl R. Ganz: Enella Benedict. In: Women Building Chicago 1790–1990: A Biographical Dictionary , ed. Rima Lunin Schultz and Adele Hast (Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana, University Press, 2001): 75–7, accessed on January 11, 2016 at hullhouse.uic.edu
personal data
SURNAME Benedict, Enella
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American landscape painter
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Lake Forest , Illinois
DATE OF DEATH April 6, 1942
Place of death Richmond , Virginia