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and was completed in 1963. Kauffman retired in 1967 from the Art Institute, but continued working and exhibiting her works. She held a one-woman show at the Vanderpoel Art Gallery in 1971, painted a mural for the Viola Gitzel Memorial Addition to the Forest Park Library in 1972, and was part of a
360:, as well as at numerous galleries in Chicago. The Third Unitarian Church of Chicago, known as the "church of the murals" because of Kauffman's artwork has been designated a Chicago architectural landmark. Photographs of the murals were displayed in New York and at an exhibit hosted by the U.S. 156:, to Charlotte Camille (née Henriksen) and George Francis Kauffman Kauffman came from an artistic family. Her father was a dress designer and her paternal grandfather, Francis Xavier Kauffman designed furniture. Her brother G. Francis would become a cartoonist and illustrator. She attended 28: 260:'s character at the Pyott Playground on Lake Street at Taylor Avenue. She painted murals at the Cook County Children's Hospital, but they were destroyed when the building was demolished. Kauffman created two bas reliefs for the Lincoln Elementary School in Evanston, Illinois. 184:
Kauffman was hired as a professor of Painting and drawing at the Art Institute of Chicago upon her return and simultaneously worked instructing art at Valparaiso University. Both assignments were part time and in 1933, when she was approached by the
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as the chair of the art department, while still teaching at the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1947, she designed the Jane Addams medal for Rockford to be awarded to students for distinguished service. Taking a sabbatical to study
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are intricate wood carvings with three-dimensional style. In addition, she completed commissions at the Washington School in Evanston and the Lowell School in Oak Park, as well as a mural for the
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The murals were painted over with housepaint, but the outlines of the canvases are visible on the walls and might be able to be restored. In 1937, Kauffman painted
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in 1941. In 1943, when the WPA project ended, Kauffman resigned her teaching post at Valparaiso University and took a position as an aircraft engineering
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in 1951 at the Art Institute, she returned as an associate professor to Rockford in 1952. She completed two ceramic murals that year,
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in 1985. One of her works was chosen in 1990 from a state-wide competition, to hang in Chicago's State of Illinois Building.
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window, which is the dominant feature of the south wall of the building. The first ceramic tile portrait was of
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and was unveiled as part of the centennial celebrations for Wilson's birth. The last portrait was of
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Kauffman died on July 4, 1993, in Chicago. Throughout her lifetime, her works were exhibited at the
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for the Luther Burbank School. The following year, she completed a second mural at the school,
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and traveled throughout Europe, before returning in 1928 to take up a teaching post at
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in a war plant. When the war ended, she returned to teaching, taking a position at
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During her time with the WPA project, Kauffman earned her bachelor's degree in
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In 1955, Kauffman began a series of seventeen murals for the
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Preliminary Survey of Historic Art in the Evanston Schools
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Camille Andrene Kauffman was born on April 19, 1905, in
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Preparation for the First County Fair in Ida Grove–1872
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Chicago
post office mural
Ida Grove, Iowa
New Deal
Section of Painting and Sculpture
Rockford, Illinois
Valparaiso, Indiana
Chicago
Cook County, Illinois
Austin Community Academy High School
Art Institute of Chicago
Paris
André Lhote
Valparaiso University
Works Progress Administration
Brookfield Zoo
Emil G. Hirsch Metropolitan High School
Oak Park, Illinois
Thumbelina
Hans Christian Andersen
Lewis Carroll
Through the Looking Glass
Captain Flint
Robert Louis Stevenson
Forest Park Public Library
post office mural
Fine Arts
Master of Fine Arts
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