Alice Shaddle
{{Short description|American sculptor and art teacher (1928–2017)}}
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| birth_place = Hinsdale, Illinois, US
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| education = Oberlin College, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
| field = papier-mâché and collage
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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.{{cite web |title=Alice Shaddle Baum |url=https://nelsonfuneralhomes.com/obituary/alice-shaddle-baum/ |website=Nelson Funeral Homes & Crematory |access-date=1 February 2022 |language=en}} She attended Oberlin College for a short while before transferring to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she received her BFA in 1954 and her MFA in 1972.{{cite web |title=Shaddle, Alice |url=https://artic.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/artists/id/77/ |website=Ryerson and Burnham Art and Architecture Archives |access-date=1 February 2022}}{{cite web |title=Alice Shaddle Baum: Fragments in a Fractured Space |url=https://www.hydeparkart.org/exhibition-archive/alice-shaddle-fragments-in-a-fractured-space/ |website=Hyde Park Art Center |access-date=1 February 2022 |date=4 November 2007}}
In 1954, Shaddle married artist and curator Don Baum, 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.{{Cite news |last=Rodkin |first=Dennis |date=October 17, 2012 |title=Kenwood's Double Shot of Frank Lloyd Wright |url=https://www.chicagomag.com/real-estate/october-2012/hyde-parks-double-shot-of-frank-lloyd-wright/ |work=Chicago Magazine}} Shaddle and Baum separated in 1970.{{Cite news |last=Pick |first=Grant |date=August 28, 1983 |title=Art That's Far Out But Cuts Close |work=Chicago Sun-Times}}
Shaddle taught at Hyde Park Art Center for over 50 years (1956–2007) and was an instructor in printmaking and drawing at Roosevelt University, Chicago (1964–1967).{{Cite book |title=Who's Who in American Art |publisher=Marquis Who's Who |year=2014 |isbn=9780837963143 |edition=35th |location=New Providence, NJ |page=1241 |language=en-US}} She also taught at Old Town Art Center (1978–1985) and the Triangle Art Center (1978–1979).{{Cite book |title=Who's Who in American Art |publisher=R.R. Bowker |year=1984 |isbn=0835218783 |edition=16th}}
Art
Shaddle worked in many media, creating sculpture, floor installations, paintings, prints, drawings, reliefs and cut paper mosaics, boxed objects, magazines, and collages.{{Cite web |date=2024 |title=Alice Shaddle: Fuller Circles |url=https://www.hydeparkart.org/exhibition-archive/alice-shaddle-fuller-circles/ |website=Hyde Park Art Center}} Her work was exhibited was exhibited widely in Chicago and the vicinity, including at Hyde Park Art Center,{{Cite web |title=Search Results |url=https://www.hydeparkart.org/?s=alice+shaddle |website=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 in 1973.{{Cite journal |last=Gardner-Huggett |first=Joanna |date=2012 |title=Artemisia Challenges the Elders: How a Women Artists' Cooperative Created a Community for Feminism and Art Made by Women |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5250/fronjwomestud.33.2.0055 |journal=Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies |volume=33 |issue=2 |pages=55–75 |doi=10.5250/fronjwomestud.33.2.0055 |issn=0160-9009 |jstor=10.5250/fronjwomestud.33.2.0055 |s2cid=142825769 |access-date=June 10, 2022 |url-access=subscription }} Her image is included in the iconic 1972 poster Some Living American Women Artists by Mary Beth Edelson.{{cite web |title=Some Living American Women Artists/Last Supper |url=https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/some-living-american-women-artistslast-supper-76377 |access-date=1 February 2022 |website=Smithsonian American Art Museum}}
Her work is in the Smithsonian American Art Museum,{{cite web |title=Alice Shaddle |url=https://americanart.si.edu/artist/alice-shaddle-4383 |access-date=1 February 2022 |website=Smithsonian American Art Museum}} the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago,{{cite web |title=Alice Shaddle |url=https://mcachicago.org/About/Who-We-Are/Artists/Alice-Shaddle |access-date=1 February 2022 |website=mcachicago.org}} and the Illinois State Museum.
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Category:Oberlin College alumni
Category:School of the Art Institute of Chicago alumni
Category:20th-century American women sculptors
Category:20th-century American sculptors
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