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Pauline Lennards Palmer
American, 1867-1938
The Picture Book
Oil on Canvasboard
32 ¼ by 36 ¼, w/ frame 37 by 41 ¼ in
Signed lower right

Inventory Number: 01616
1900-1949 American Interior Period 1900-1949 Portrait Impressionist/Post Impressionist

See Artist Bio below.


Pauline Lennards Palmer
American, 1867-1938

Born in McHenry, Illinois, Pauline Palmer became a painter in realist/impressionist style of a wide variety of subjects including landscapes, street and beach scenes, genre, and portraits. She trained at the Art Institute of Chicago, and studied with William Merritt Chase, Kenneth Hayes Miller, and Charles Hawthorne. She also studied in Paris.

She married Dr. Albert Palmer of Chicago, and he encouraged her art career. She exhibited annually at the Art Institute for nearly three decades and during that time, won most of the major awards and prizes. Highly active in Chicago, she was the first woman elected president of the Chicago Society of Artists (1918). She was also a member of the Chicago Art Guild, the Chicago Arts Club, and exhibited with these groups as well as the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors.

The Palmers had a summer home in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and were much a part of the art community there. She was widowed at age fifty three and spent even more time after that in her Cape Cod studio. Children of the Portuguese fishermen and simple activities by the sea were her favorite subjects.

Sources:
American Art Review, April 2002
Jules and Nancy Heller, North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century

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