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Nellie Augusta Knopf

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Nellie Augusta Knopf (1875 - 1962) was active/lived in Illinois, California.  Nellie Knopf is known for Landscape and still life painting.

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 Born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, Nellie Knopf became a painter of mountain, pueblos, seascapes, and other outdoor scenes that brought her international recognition.

She graduated with honors from the Art Institute of Chicago, a student of John Vanderpoel and Frederick Freer.   For 43 years she taught and was Director of Art at Illinois Woman's College, later MacMurray College, in Jacksonville, Illinois.  She managed to combine effective teaching with a successful painting career of her own.

She sketched every summer from 1910 to 1917 with Charles Woodbury in Ogunguit, Maine, and beginning 1923, she traveled widely in the West during summers and sabbaticals, to paint the landscapes and pueblos of Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, California, etc.  She was deaf but overcame that handicap to do what was described as "miles of paintings".

The following information, courtesy Sidney Hamper, is abstracted from a letter from Nellie A. Knopf, d   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 5409 characters.]  Artist bio

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.  There are 24 similar (related) artists for Nellie Augusta Knopf available:    Angelo Di Benedetto,  Charles Bunnell,  Tabor Utley,  Louis Ribak,  Lewis Lee Tilley,  Richard Tallant,  Frederick Milton Grant,  Arthur Josiah Hammond,  Charles Partridge Adams,  Warren Eliphalet Rollins,  Randolph LaSalle Coats,  Albert Groll,  John Hardrick,  Francis Humphry W Woolrych,  James Everett Stuart,  Carl Krafft,  Howard Russell Butler,  Gunnar Widforss,  Ferdinand Burgdorff,  Ned Jacob,  Olaf Carl Wieghorst,  William J Forsyth,  Marguerite Zorach,  Paul Lauritz



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Keywords and Quick Facts for Nellie Augusta Knopf


   Keywords 
Exhibition By An Art School
  • The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Art MethodArt MediaArt Style
  • Impressionism Before 1940
Art SubjectGeography/Places Lived and/or Worked
  • Arizona Before 1945
  • California Before 1940
  • Colorado Rocky Mountains
  • Europe
  • Glacier National Park
  • Grand Canyon, Arizona
  • Mexico and/or Central America
  • New Mexico Before 1940
  • Taos, New Mexico Before 1940
Art Association
  • American Federation of Arts
  • American Watercolor Society, Painters in Watercolor
  • National Association of Women Artists, Painters and Sculptors
  • Society of Independent Artists-
Art Teacher
  • Birger Sandzen
  • Charles Woodbury
  • Frederick William Freer
  • John Vanderpoel
Art School
  • School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Student
Chronology
  • Early 20th Century Before 1950
  • Late 19th Century, After Civil War
  • Late 20th Century After 1950
Art Collection
  • Louise and Alan Sellars Collection
Added Description
  • Art Educator: Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
  • Deaf Artist
Exhibition of Art Association
  • American Watercolor Society, Painters in Watercolor-
  • National Academy of Design, New York
  • National Association of Women Artists, Painters and Sculptors)
  • Society of Independent Artists--
Exhibition of Museum
  • Art Institute of Chicago
  • Carnegie Institute, International Exhibition
  • Corcoran Gallery and/or Art School, Washington DC
  • Detroit Institute of Art

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