Annabelle Wolverton was an artist who was active in Kansas City, Missouri, in the 1920s and studied at the Kansas City Art Institute.
Wolverton attended high school in Holton, Kansas. As a senior, she was in charge of the art for the 1921 issue of the Annual, published by seniors every year. After graduation, she attended the Kansas City Art Institute in 1923-24.
In 1923 Wolverton participated in a students' exhibition at the Kansas City Art Institute and won a first-place award for watercolors and a third-place award for lettering and layout. She also exhibited two paintings at the 1924_ Midwestern Artists' Exhibition_, and at the Society of Independent Artists exhibition in New York City in 1924. That same year, Wolverton won an award for second-year sculpture at the Kansas City Art Institute students' exhibition. The 1925 issue of The Typographical Journal notes that Wolverton left her position as a proofreader to pursue her study of art on the East Coast. Little is known about her artistic career after 1925.
Midwestern Artists' Exhibition
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Organized by Kansas City Art Institute
Award, Kansas City Art Institute Annual Students’ Exhibition
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Midwestern Artists' Exhibition
Organized by Kansas City Art Institute
Organized by Kansas City Art Institute
Award, Kansas City Art Institute Annual Students’ Exhibition
Award, Kansas City Art Institute Annual Students’ Exhibition
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Delvin V. Markley, “Kansas City, MO,” Typographical Journal 66, 1925: 91.
Clark S. Marlor, The Society of Independent Artists: The Exhibition Record 1917-1944 (Park Ridge, NJ: Noyes Press, 1984), 583.
Kansas City Art Institute. The Midwestern Artists’ Exhibition Consisting of Representative Work from Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska and Colorado. Exhibited During the Month of February, 1924 (Kansas City: The Institute, 1924), accessed March 17, 2023, https://archive.org/details/1924-midwestern-artists-exhibition-catalog
“Art School in Good Showing: Of 300 Entries at Exhibition, 100 Are by Artists Who Studied Here,” Kansas City Times, February 8, 1924, 9.
“Art Show Open to Public: Kansas City May View the Work of Its Own,” Kansas City Times, February 6, 1924.
“The Art Exhibit Ready: Annual Student’s Event Opens at Institute Tonight,” Kansas City Star, June 1, 1923, 9.
“Seniors Work On Annual,” The Holton Recorder, March 3, 1921, 6.
“Annabelle Wolverton in the 1920 United States Federal Census,” Ancestry, accessed March 17, 2023.
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Roberta Wagener, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
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References
Artist clippings file is available at:
Bibliography
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Delvin V. Markley, “Kansas City, MO,” Typographical Journal 66, 1925: 91.
Clark S. Marlor, The Society of Independent Artists: The Exhibition Record 1917-1944 (Park Ridge, NJ: Noyes Press, 1984), 583.
Kansas City Art Institute. The Midwestern Artists’ Exhibition Consisting of Representative Work from Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska and Colorado. Exhibited During the Month of February, 1924 (Kansas City: The Institute, 1924), accessed March 17, 2023, https://archive.org/details/1924-midwestern-artists-exhibition-catalog
“Art School in Good Showing: Of 300 Entries at Exhibition, 100 Are by Artists Who Studied Here,” Kansas City Times, February 8, 1924, 9.
“Art Show Open to Public: Kansas City May View the Work of Its Own,” Kansas City Times, February 6, 1924.
“The Art Exhibit Ready: Annual Student’s Event Opens at Institute Tonight,” Kansas City Star, June 1, 1923, 9.
“Seniors Work On Annual,” The Holton Recorder, March 3, 1921, 6.
“Annabelle Wolverton in the 1920 United States Federal Census,” Ancestry, accessed March 17, 2023.
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Contributors
Roberta Wagener, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Artist Record Published
Published on May 1, 2023
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