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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 Oberlin College is a Private university, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college and conservatory of music in Oberlin, Ohio, United States. Founded in 1833, it is the oldest Mixed-sex education, coeducational lib ...
for a short while before transferring to the
School of the Art Institute of Chicago The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) is a Private university, 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 gr ...
where she received her BFA in 1954 and her MFA in 1972. In 1954, Shaddle married artist and curator
Don Baum Don Baum (1922 – October 28, 2008) was an American curator, artist and educator, most known as a key impresario and promoter of the Chicago Imagists, a group of artists that had an enduring impact on American art in the later twentieth century. ...
, with whom she had two children. The couple lived in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago, where they purchased the George Blossom House, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, in 1956. Shaddle and Baum separated in 1970. Shaddle taught at
Hyde Park Art Center The Hyde Park Art Center (HPAC) is a visual arts organization and the oldest alternative exhibition space in the city of Chicago. Since 2006, HPAC has been located just north of Hyde Park Boulevard, at 5020 S.Cornell Avenue, in the Kenwood neigh ...
for over 50 years (1956–2007) and was an instructor in printmaking and drawing at
Roosevelt University Roosevelt University is a private university in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Founded in 1945, the university was named in honor of United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. The university enrolls arou ...
, Chicago (1964–1967). She also taught at Old Town Art Center (1978–1985) and the Triangle Art Center (1978–1979). Shaddle died on November 27, 2017.


Art

Shaddle worked in many media, creating sculpture, floor installations, paintings, prints, drawings, reliefs and cut paper mosaics, boxed objects, magazines, and collages. Her work was exhibited was exhibited widely in Chicago and the vicinity, including at Hyde Park Art Center, Artemisia Gallery, the Art Institute of Chicago, Elmhurst University, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and Dell Gallery. Shaddle was a founding member of the
Artemisia Gallery Artemisia Gallery was an alternative exhibition space in Chicago, Illinois, United States, 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 opportuni ...
in 1973. Her image is included in the iconic 1972 poster Some Living American Women Artists by
Mary Beth Edelson Mary Elizabeth Edelson (; February 6, 1933 – April 20, 2021) was an American artist and pioneer of the feminist art movement in the United States, feminist art movement, deemed one of the notable "first-generation feminist artists". Edelson ...
. Her work is in the
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, the
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Chicago is a contemporary art art gallery, museum near Water Tower Place in the Near North Side, Chicago, Near North Side of Chicago, Illinois, United States. The museum, which was established in 1967, is on ...
, and the
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.


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