Genevieve Dorney
- BORN
-
August 6, 1898
Gilman City, Missouri
- DIED
-
November 1, 1965
Madison, South Dakota
- EDUCATION
-
Columbia University
New York, New YorkKansas City Art Institute
Kansas City, MissouriFort Hays State Normal School
Hays, Kansas
Born in Gilman City, Missouri, Genevieve Dorney relocated with her family to Kansas, where she attended Fort Hays Normal School and won first place for a painted poster design she created for a war savings stamp campaign in 1918. During the early 1920s, she attended both the Kansas City Art Institute and Miss Church’s School of Fine Arts in Chicago, and received her master's of art from Columbia University in New York. Afterward, she gained a position teaching art at the Eastern State Teachers' College in Madison, South Dakota, and eventually became chairman of the Art Division at Eastern State Normal School in Madison -- a position she held for forty-two years.
In addition to her life-long career as an art educator, she wrote the book The Teaching of Art: A Text Book Prepared in Accordance with the South Dakota Course of Study, which was published in 1935, and also exhibited her own work as a member of the American Association of University Women.
Dorney died in 1965 and is buried in her birthplace of Gilman City, Missouri.
Award, National Exhibition of War Posters
Awards & Exhibitions 2
Award, National Exhibition of War Posters
Relationships0
Relationships0
References
Artist clippings file is available at:
Bibliography
Select Sources
“Genevieve Dorney,” Find A Grave, accessed June 18, 2021,
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/14505269/genevieve-dorney.
Chris Petteys, Dictionary of Women Artists: An International Dictionary of Women Artists Born Before 1900 (Boston: G.K. Hall & Co., 1985), 205.
Leda Cempellin, “A Perspective on South Dakota Women in Fine and Traditional Arts,” in Action, Influence and Voice: Contemporary South Dakota Women, eds. Meredith Redlin, Christine Stewart Nunez and Julie M. Barst (Brookings, SD: South Dakota Agricultural Heritage Museum, 2015), 71, https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/215581967.pdf.
“Purely Personal,” Hays Daily News, June 6, 1965, 5.
“Art Display is Seen by AAUW,” The Daily Plainsman, April 30, 1948, 2.
“Local Items…” The Tonganoxie Mirror, July 13, 1944, 10.
“Instructors Take Leave of Absence,” The Daily Plainsman, December 19, 1930, 2.
“Local Notes, ” The Hays Free Press, August 7, 1923, 8.
“The Voice of the People,” Ellis County News, July 8, 1920, 5.
“Genevieve Dorney Wins State Contest,” The Hays Free Press, May 16, 1918, 1.
“Art Department at Hays is Awarded First Place,” The Hutchinson News, May 16, 1918, 11.
“Hays Students Design Many Patriotic Posters,” The Topeka Daily Capital, March 31, 1918, 3.
Core Reference Sources
Peter H. Falk, et. al, Who was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: 400 Years of Artists in America (Madison: Sound View Press, 1999).
askART (database), askART, https://www.askart.com/.
Anita Jacobsen, Jacobsen's Biographical Index of American Artists (Carrollton: A.J. Publications, 2002).
Image Credits
Portrait of Artist
Genevieve Dorney, 1927.
Photograph.
Eastern State Teachers College 1927 yearbook.
Contributors
Christain Hartman, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Artist Record Published
Published on September 20, 2021
Learn more
References
Artist clippings file is available at:
Bibliography
Select Sources
“Genevieve Dorney,” Find A Grave, accessed June 18, 2021,
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/14505269/genevieve-dorney.
Chris Petteys, Dictionary of Women Artists: An International Dictionary of Women Artists Born Before 1900 (Boston: G.K. Hall & Co., 1985), 205.
Leda Cempellin, “A Perspective on South Dakota Women in Fine and Traditional Arts,” in Action, Influence and Voice: Contemporary South Dakota Women, eds. Meredith Redlin, Christine Stewart Nunez and Julie M. Barst (Brookings, SD: South Dakota Agricultural Heritage Museum, 2015), 71, https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/215581967.pdf.
“Purely Personal,” Hays Daily News, June 6, 1965, 5.
“Art Display is Seen by AAUW,” The Daily Plainsman, April 30, 1948, 2.
“Local Items…” The Tonganoxie Mirror, July 13, 1944, 10.
“Instructors Take Leave of Absence,” The Daily Plainsman, December 19, 1930, 2.
“Local Notes, ” The Hays Free Press, August 7, 1923, 8.
“The Voice of the People,” Ellis County News, July 8, 1920, 5.
“Genevieve Dorney Wins State Contest,” The Hays Free Press, May 16, 1918, 1.
“Art Department at Hays is Awarded First Place,” The Hutchinson News, May 16, 1918, 11.
“Hays Students Design Many Patriotic Posters,” The Topeka Daily Capital, March 31, 1918, 3.
Core Reference Sources
Peter H. Falk, et. al, Who was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: 400 Years of Artists in America (Madison: Sound View Press, 1999).
askART (database), askART, https://www.askart.com/.
Anita Jacobsen, Jacobsen's Biographical Index of American Artists (Carrollton: A.J. Publications, 2002).
Contributors
Christain Hartman, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Artist Record Published
Published on September 20, 2021
Updated on None
