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The Palette and Chisel1895 to 1921

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Frank Hensley

Club Historian for many years

Paid to have Logbook microfilmed

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First Meetings

Fall of 1895 in the Athenaeum Building

Hired models to pose on Sunday mornings

Painted until they got hungry

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Beginnings of the Club Proper

1896

after a few Sundays the painters transferred theiroperations to the Athenaeum Building, and convincingMr. Lorado Taft of their serious intentions, obtained the

use of his big studio. There, amid sculptured marbleand plaster casts the continued their studies for severalmonths and finally persuaded him to surrender the bigroom to them for a permanent headquarters

Membership limited to 35

Thursday night composition class

Saturday afternoon painting class

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The Founders

Fred Larson

Richard Boehm

Curtis Gandy

Charles Mulligan Henry Hutt

Wilson Irvine

David Hunter

L.

M.

Coakley H. Wagner

Arnold Bunch

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Henry Hutt

Illustrator

Magazines

Books Catalogues

Moved to New York

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Membership 1896, early 1897

Carl Mauch

Frank Holme

Will Carqueville Fred Mulhaupt

Thomas OShaughnessy

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Frank Holme

Exhibited at Art Institute in 1897

Etcher, illustrator, raconteur

Started Frank Holme School of Illustration,1898, located in Fine Arts Building

Faculty included: J. C. and F.X. Leyendecker,

Will Carqueville, and W. W. Denslow

Founder, Bandar Log Press

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Art Institute Exhibit, 1916

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Hobo Pink Tea

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Roman Rites

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Scotch Sketches

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Painting Trips

First Painting Outings 1896

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First Painting Outings, 1896

Mauch and Carr managed to impress three

railroads with the clubs importance

Club members were sponsored on sketching

trips by these several misguided

corporations with free transportation

All for the rare privilege of exhibiting the

pictorial results, to advertise theirroads

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West of Chicago, Kellys Hostelry, location

unknown Devils Lake

Starved Rock

Canada, 1898

Fox Lake, 1905

Brown County, Indiana, 1909

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Death ofFrank Holme

Moved to Arizona for health reasons

Founded Bandar Log Press

Incorporated the press in 1902 to raise money

Charles Dana Gibson, George Ade bought

shares

Mark Twain had to pay $50 per share

Died 1904, Denver, age 36

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Prominent Members

Rudolf Ingerle

Hanson Puthuff

Joseph Kleitsch

Carl Krafft Otto Hake

Adam Emory Albright

John Allen St. John

Frank Dudley

Edgar Payne

Gustave Baumann

E. Martin Hennings

Walter Ufer Eugene Savage

Ezra Winter

W. Victor Higgins

Joe and FrankLeyendecker

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1012 N. Dearborn

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Places

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Places

Union League Club

Vanderpoel Memorial Art Collection

Sources

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Sources

Club Logbook Minutes of the Club, 1902-present

The Cowbell, 1913-1915

The Palette and Chisel Newsletter, 1922-1932

Ryerson Library, Art Institute

Chicago Public Library Frank Hensley

Chris Miller

Chicago Daily News Photo Archive

Encyclopedia of Chicago

Marianne Richter, The History of the Palette and Chisel, 2001