Alice Shaddle Baum (1928 – 2017) was an American sculptor, collage artist, and founding member of the Artemisia Gallery in Chicago.

Biography

Shaddle was born on December 21, 1928, in Hinsdale, Illinois. She attended Oberlin College, receiving her BFA in 1954 and the

School of the Art Institute of Chicago The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) is a private art school associated with the Art Institute of Chicago (AIC) in Chicago, Illinois. Tracing its history to an art students' cooperative founded in 1866, which grew into the museum an ...

receiving her MFA in 1972. She married Don Baum with whom she had two children. Shaddle taught at the Hyde Park Art Center for over 50 years (from 1955 to 2006) and was an instructor in printmaking and drawing at

Roosevelt University Roosevelt University is a Private school, private university with campuses in Chicago and Schaumburg, Illinois, Schaumburg, Illinois. Founded in 1945, the university was named in honor of United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Frankli ...

, Chicago, from 1965 to 1967. She was a founding member of the

Artemisia Gallery Artemisia Gallery was an alternative exhibition space in Chicago, Illinois, that operated from 1973 until its closure in 2003. History The gallery was a cooperative, started by 20 women who were frustrated by the lack of opportunities for fema ...

in 1973. Her image is included in the iconic 1972 poster Some Living American Women Artists by Mary Beth Edelson. Her work is in the

Smithsonian American Art Museum The Smithsonian American Art Museum (commonly known as SAAM, and formerly the National Museum of American Art) is a museum in Washington, D.C., part of the Smithsonian Institution. Together with its branch museum, the Renwick Gallery, SAAM holds ...

and the

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Chicago is a contemporary art museum near Water Tower Place in downtown Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The museum, which was established in 1967, is one of the world's largest contempora ...

. Shaddle died on November 27, 2017.

References

1928 births 2017 deaths American sculptors Oberlin College alumni School of the Art Institute of Chicago alumni 20th-century American women sculptors 20th-century American sculptors {{US-sculptor-stub