Fannie Louella Long,
Illinois Artist (1898-1956)
Born: September 1, 1898
Died: Sunday, prior to Feb 13, 1956
"Louella Long, a former resident of Rock Island
(IL), died early Sunday morning in a Quad-City Hospital following an extended
illness.
She was a professional artist and was employed in the art department of
the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago at the time she was taken
ill.
She was a daughter of the late William L. and Effie M. Long. She was born
in St. Paul, Minn. The family moved to Rock Island when she was a young
child. she attended Rock Island schools and received art instruction at
Augustana College and the Davenport Municipal Art Gallery classes where
she was awarded first prize for an oil landscape painting the first year
of competition.
She received additional art instruction at the Art Institute, Chicago,
where some of her paintings have been exhibited. At the Minneapolis Society
of Fine Arts and School of Art she received a scholarship in design at
the close of her first year of instruction and the following year a scholarship
to the New York Art Students League, New York City. She was a member of
Broadway Presbyterian Church, Rock Island.
Immediate survivors are two sisters, Miss Florence L. Long, Boston, Mass.,
and Mrs. Hazel M. Babcock, Rock Island.
Private funeral services are scheduled for tomorrow morning at the Knox
Mortuary, Rock Island. A Christian Science Reader will officiate. Burial
will be in Chippiannock Cemetery."
-(from the Rock Island (IL) Argus, February 13, 1956)
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Fannie Louella Long, who used "Louella Long"
as her professional name, was born into a family of avid Christian Scientists,
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Ms. Long attended the Minnesota School of Art (1918-1919), the Art Student's League (1919-1920), the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1924-1926), and the Art Students League (1927-1928). These two works by Ms. Long show her power as an artist.
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Examples of
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(photographs and obituary courtesy of Diane Oestreich from Rock Island)
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These drawings, about 6" x 9" each, and photograph were originally from the 1916 "Watchtower", the Rock Island High School yearbook.
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