Charlotte Russell Partridge

The Gallery seeks artwork by Charlotte Russell. Contact: info@GalleryofWisconsinArt.com

BORN: November 24, 1882 in Minneapolis, MN

DIED: 1977, in Milwaukee, WI

Charlotte Partridge and Miriam Frink were visionaries whose work establishing and running the Layton School of Art in Milwaukee furthered art education in Wisconsin and fostered the early careers of many studio artists.

Charlotte Partridge was born in 1881 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She attended Dana Hall, a college preparatory school in Massachusetts, before returning to the Midwest. Partridge graduated from Northern Illinois Teachers College in 1905, after which she took on various teaching positions. Her interest in art led her to study at the progressive Chicago School of Applied and Normal Art. In 1914, Partridge was hired as an art faculty member at Downer College in Milwaukee where she earned a reputation for steering the art program away from the stiff academic style that was dominant at the time. A proponent of modern art, she later became head of the school’s fine arts department.

Miriam Frink, a native of Elkhart, Indiana, was born in in 1892. She attended Downer College in her freshman and sophomore years, then transferred to Smith College. After graduation, Frink was offered a position teaching English at

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Charlotte Russell Partridge