Alice Shaddle

Alice Shaddle Baum
Born
Alice Shaddle

(1928-12-21)December 21, 1928
Hinsdale, Illinois, US
DiedNovember 27, 2017(2017-11-27) (aged 88)
Known forpapier-mâché and collage

Alice Shaddle Baum (1928 – 2017) was an American sculptor, collage artist, and founding member of the Artemisia Gallery in Chicago.

Biography

Shaddle was born on December 21, 1928, in Hinsdale, Illinois.[1] She attended Oberlin College for a short while before transferring to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she received her BFA in 1954 and her MFA in 1972.[2][3]

In 1954, Shaddle married artist and curator Don Baum, with whom she had two children.[1] The couple lived in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago, where they purchased the George Blossom House, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, in 1956.[4] Shaddle and Baum separated in 1970.[5]

Shaddle taught at Hyde Park Art Center for over 50 years[2] (1956-2007) and was an instructor in printmaking and drawing at Roosevelt University, Chicago (1964-1967).[6] She also taught at Old Town Art Center (1978-1985) and the Triangle Art Center (1978-1979).[7]

Shaddle died on November 27, 2017.[1]

Art

Shaddle worked in many media, creating sculpture, floor installations, paintings, prints, drawings, reliefs and cut paper mosaics, boxed objects, magazines, and collages.[8] Her work was exhibited was exhibited widely in Chicago and the vicinity, including at Hyde Park Art Center,[9] Artemisia Gallery,[8] the Art Institute of Chicago, Elmhurst University, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and Dell Gallery.[3] Shaddle was a founding member of the Artemisia Gallery[3] in 1973.[10] Her image is included in the iconic 1972 poster Some Living American Women Artists by Mary Beth Edelson.[11]

Her work is in the Smithsonian American Art Museum,[12] the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago,[13] and the Illinois State Museum.[8]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Alice Shaddle Baum". Nelson Funeral Homes & Crematory. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
  2. ^ a b "Shaddle, Alice". Ryerson and Burnham Art and Architecture Archives. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
  3. ^ a b c "Alice Shaddle Baum: Fragments in a Fractured Space". Hyde Park Art Center. 4 November 2007. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
  4. ^ Rodkin, Dennis (October 17, 2012). "Kenwood's Double Shot of Frank Lloyd Wright". Chicago Magazine.
  5. ^ Pick, Grant (August 28, 1983). "Art That's Far Out But Cuts Close". Chicago Sun-Times.
  6. ^ Who's Who in American Art (35th ed.). New Providence, NJ: Marquis Who's Who. 2014. p. 1241. ISBN 9780837963143.
  7. ^ Who's Who in American Art (16th ed.). R.R. Bowker. 1984. ISBN 0835218783.
  8. ^ a b c "Alice Shaddle: Fuller Circles". Hyde Park Art Center. 2024.
  9. ^ "Search Results". Hyde Park Art Center.
  10. ^ Gardner-Huggett, Joanna (2012). "Artemisia Challenges the Elders: How a Women Artists' Cooperative Created a Community for Feminism and Art Made by Women". Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies. 33 (2): 55–75. doi:10.5250/fronjwomestud.33.2.0055. ISSN 0160-9009. JSTOR 10.5250/fronjwomestud.33.2.0055. S2CID 142825769. Retrieved June 10, 2022 – via JSTOR.
  11. ^ "Some Living American Women Artists/Last Supper". Smithsonian American Art Museum. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
  12. ^ "Alice Shaddle". Smithsonian American Art Museum. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
  13. ^ "Alice Shaddle". mcachicago.org. Retrieved 1 February 2022.


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