Post 217 -by Gautam Shah
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SUNDAY Feature on ART of Architecture
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Pauline Lennards Palmer (1867-1938) was the most famous artist based in Chicago in the early 20th C. She first studied art at the Art Institute of Chicago, than pursued it further at Paris, in the Académie Colarossi, the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, and with American painter Richard E. Miller. She Palmer enjoyed a successful career that spanned for over half a century.
Palmer achieved recognition as a versatile artist through her portraits, landscape, still life and genre paintings. Her expertise of human figures was well received. She was adept in oil, pastel, tempera, and watercolour.
She began with an academic approach using dark tones but her exposure to Europe through frequent visits lead her to ‘conservative impressionism’. She began to exploit the brush strokes and pallette knife, for capturing the light and atmospheric effects. She was en plein-air artists.
Palmer maintained a studio in Chicago. During the first decade of the twentieth century (till WW-I), Palmer travelled extensively abroad, spending a few summer months, every year in Europe.
In 1919, Palmer became the first woman to be elected president of the Chicago Society of Artists. She was also active with the Chicago Water-colour Club, the Chicago Art Guild, the Chicago Arts Club, and the Municipal Art League, among other affiliations.
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