The Chicago Society of Artists is a non-profit organization. The "CSA is the oldest continuing association of artists in the United States. Since its inception and incorporation in 1889, the Chicago Society of Artists has had two primary objectives – the advancement of art in the

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area and cultivation of the production and display of member art works".

Notable members

Gertrude Abercrombie Gertrude Abercrombie (February 17, 1909 – July 3, 1977) was an American painter based in Chicago. Called "the queen of the bohemian artists", Abercrombie was involved in the Chicago jazz scene and was friends with musicians such as Dizzy Gille ...

* Frances Badger * Belle Baranceanu * Orval Caldwell * Gustaf Dalstrom *

Ruth VanSickle Ford Ruth Van Sickle Ford (August 8, 1897 – April 18, 1989) was an American painter, art teacher, and owner of the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. She credited artists George Bellows, who influenced her interest in social realism, and John Carlson, ...

Todros Geller Todros Geller (Yiddish: טודרוס געלער; July 1, 1889 – February, 23 1949) was a Jewish American artist and teacher best known as a master printmaker and a leading artist among Chicago's art community. Early life and education Gel ...

* C. Bertram Hartman * Natalie Smith Henry *

John Christen Johansen John Christen Johansen (November 25, 1876 – May 23, 1964) was a Danish- American portraitist. His work was part of the art competitions at the 1928 Summer Olympics and the 1932 Summer Olympics. Background Johansen was born in Copenhagen and ...

Edwin Boyd Johnson Edwin Boyd Johnson (November 4, 1904 – 1968) was an American painter, designer, muralist and photographer. Edwin Boyd Johnson was born on November 4, 1904, in Watertown, Tennessee,. Not long thereafter, the family moved to Nashville, Tenne ...

* Paul Klein * Joseph Kleitsch * Beatrice S. Levy *

LeRoy Neiman LeRoy Neiman (born LeRoy Leslie Runquist, June 8, 1921 – June 20, 2012) was an American artist known for his brilliantly colored, expressionist paintings and screenprints of athletes, musicians, and sporting events. Early life Neiman was ...

Edgar Alwin Payne Edgar Alwin Payne (1 March 1883 – 8 April 1947) was an American painter. He was known as a Western landscape painter and muralist. Early life Payne was born near Cassville, Barry County, Missouri, in the heart of the Ozarks.. Cassville is in so ...

Leo Segedin Leopold Segedin (born 1927) is an American artist and educator based in Chicago. He is best known as an urban figurative painter, who portrays humanist scenes of life in mid-20th century Chicago.Klauba, Judith Lloyd and Doug Stapleton. "Luminous ...

John Vanderpoel John Henry Vanderpoel (November 15, 1857 – May 2, 1911), born Johannes (Jan) van der Poel, was a Dutch-American artist and teacher, best known as an instructor of figure drawing. His book ''The Human Figure'', a standard art school resource fea ...

* James F. Walker * Frances Farrand Dodge

References

Arts organizations based in Illinois American artist groups and collectives Non-profit organizations based in Chicago Arts organizations established in 1889 1889 establishments in Illinois {{US-arts-org-stub