Biografie von Ailleen Phillips SHANNON (1888-?)

Birth place: Gillsburg, MS

Addresses: Las Cruces, NM

Profession: Painter

Studied: PAFA; Chicago Acad. FA; M. Pemberton Ginther, William M. Chase, Wayman Adams; Tudor Hart; Académie Julian, Paris; Art Instruction, Inc., Minneapolis.

Exhibited: NOAA, 1915; Soc. Wash. Artists, 1936; NAWA, 1942; SSAL; Parkersburg FAC; Virginia-Intermont College, Santa Fe, NM; Fed. Sch., NM, 1933 (prize), 1939 (prize); Women Painters Am., Wichita, KS, 1938; Rockefeller Center, NYC, 1938; CGA; Grand Central Art Gal.; PAFA; Mississippi AA; NOMA; El Paso, TX; DMFA; Santa Fe, NM (solo); Albuquerque, NM; Jackson, MS (solo); Alamogordo, Tularosa, & Hobbs, NM (all solo).

Member: NAWA; SSAL; AAPL; Mississippi AA; San Francisco AA; PAFA (fellow).

Work: Mississippi AA; Rock Springs (WY) AA; New Mexico State College; Brannigan Mem. Lib., Las Cruces, NM; 20th Century Club, Clayton, NM

Sources: WW59; WW47. More recently, see Encyclopaedia of New Orleans Artists, 349.