Biografie von Ethel SPEARS (1903-1974)

Birth place: Chicago, IL

Addresses: Chicago, IL; Navasota, TX, 1961

Profession: Painter, lithographer, screenprinter, illustrator, teacher, craftsperson

Studied: AIC; Alexander Archipenko in Woodstock, NY; ASL; J. Norton; H. Rosse.

Exhibited: S. Indp. A., 1927, 1931; AIC, 1946 (prize),1951, & prior; Rogers Park Women's Club, Chicago (prize); Chicago SA; San Diego FA Soc., 1944; La Jolla AC, 1944; New Trier H.S., Winnetka, IL, 1945; Chicago College Club, 1946; Oak Park Women's Club, 1945; Chicago Women's Club, 1945; 750 Gal., 1952; Palmer House, Chicago, 1952; Demonstrations of silk screen printing.

Member: NSMP; Chicago SA; Art Center, Chicago.

Work: AIC; community houses, Chicago; Lowell School Oak Park; Oakton School, Evanston, IL; Crippled Children's Ward, IL; Research Hospital; USPO, Hartford, WI; Pub. Lib., Rochelle, IL.

Comments: In her watercolors Spears depicted everyday rural life in Texas. Position: WPA artist; instr., drawing, design, silk screen printing, enameling, AIC, Chicago, IL, 1944-52.

Sources: WW59; WW47; Trenton, ed. Independent Spirits, 195, cites birth date of 1902.