Emily Parker Groom

Emily Parker Groom (1876–1975) was an American artist born in Wayland, Massachusetts, and died in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.[1] As a child, she attended weekly art lessons under Miss Alida Goodwin, a teacher at South Division High School and All Saints Cathedral Institute, where Emily later graduated. She simultaneously received private painting lessons from her father. These experiences combined provided her with a unique early education compared to the primarily German-speaking community of artists in the area.[2] She attended the Art Institute of Chicago with John Vanderpoel, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and participated in the Art Student's League in New York with Birge Harrison.[1]

Emily Parker Groom
Born1876
Wayland, Massachusetts
Died1975
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
NationalityAmerican
Known forPainting

Artistic career

Emily Parker Groom became a faculty member at Milwaukee Downer College as an art teacher, where she was eventually asked to create an art department in 1902. She took a break from teaching from 1917-1945, in order to focus on her painting. She built a studio named "Windover" in 1917 with her sister Mary Groom in Genesee, Wisconsin. She participated in the Public Works Art Project, created by President Franklin Roosevelt in 1933, as a planner and an exhibiting artist. During the Depression years, there was a lack of major exhibitions and she did not participate in many shows or sell many works. During the Great Depression and her teaching term at the Layton School of Art "she participated in 'Grab Bag' sales to raise money to assist Layton Students."[2]

Style

She is noted to have worked in various mediums, and a retrospective hosted by the Charles Allis Art Museum contained thirty-four images in chalk, charcoal, graphite, pastel and watercolor and her subjects range from flowers to urban and rural landscapes. She used the wet-on-wet technique "that retains a timeless, contemporary element." She also found a way to incorporate the texture of the watercolor paper to make a stucco exterior for buildings in her work.[3] in the 1920s Groom's work became more focused on watercolor and painting plein air. "Grab Bag" sales are described as selling small work for dollar after it had been displayed for a week in a specially organized exhibition, designated for these sales.[2]

Exhibitions and major works

In 1904 she entered a work at the Tenth Annual Exhibition of Art Students League of Chicago titled A Portrait of Mrs. Rollin B. Mallory.[2] The following is a list of Emily Parker Groom's solo exhibitions: F.H. Bressler Gallery (1917), Milwaukee Art Institute (1925), Thomas Dunbar Galleries (1926), Chicago Galleries Association (1929), Layton Art Gallery (1929, 1933, 1935, 1941), Milwaukee-Downer College (1936, 1947, 1955), Bressler Gallery (1937), Chapman Memorial Library (1938, 1943), Oshkosh Public Museum (1945), Paine Art Center (1958), Charles Allis Art Museum (1972), Lawerence University, Wriston Art Center Galleries (2001), and Charles Allis Art Museum (2002).[1]

References
  1. Art, Museum of Wisconsin. "Emily Parker Groom | MOWA Online Archive". www.wisconsinart.org. Retrieved 2017-03-04.
  2. "Emily Groom Gallery". emilygroom.com. Archived from the original on 2014-04-09. Retrieved 2017-03-04.
  3. "Charles Allis Presents Wisconsin Master Artist Emily Parker Groom". Retrieved 2017-03-04.
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