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Joseph Kaep (1903 – 1991)
Studied: Frederick V. Poole, Wellington Reynolds,
Karl Buehr, Charles A. Willimousky, F. De Forest Shook, Elmer
Forsberg, Loras College, Dubuque, Iowa; Chicago Art Institute,
Chicago Ill.; Foreign Travel and Study; Summer School of painting,
Baileys Harbor, Wisconsin.
Prizes & Honors: Municipal Collection
of Chicago; Loras College, Dubuque, Iowa; Dubuque Senior high
School; American Academy of Arts and Letter, New York City;
Honorable mention American Watercolor Society.
Clubs & Associations: Salmagundi Club
(date admitted) 1950; Chicago Galleries Assn.; American Watercolor
Society; Greenwich Society of Artists; Westport Artist Assn.
Illinois Society if Fine Arts; Assn. of Chicago Painters and
Sculptors; Dubuque Art Assn.; American Institute of Graphic
Arts; Palette and Chisel Club; All Illinois Society of Fine
Arts; Chicago Galleries Assn.
Exhibitions: American Watercolor Society,
New York City; Connecticut Watercolor Society, New Haven Conn.,
International Watercolor Exhibition, Chicago Ill. ; Washington
Watercolor Society, Washington D.C.; Chicago Painters and Sculptors.
List of Important Works & Commissions: Loras College, Dubuque,
Iowa; Dubuque Art Assn.; City of Chicago; American Academy of
Arts and Letters, New York City; Janesville Art Assn.; Janesville,
Wisconsin; Dubuque Senior High School.
“Back to the Big Top” – purchased for Municipal
Collection of Chicago ill.; “Antique Dealer’s Porch”
purchased through the Childe Hassam Fund by the American Academy
of Arts and Letters; Commission of 20 watercolors of Haiti.
Sketching trips to: Taos, New Mexico; Arizona; England, France;
Switzerland; Italy, Germany, Holland, Belgium, Sicily; Tunis;
Algiers; Smokey Mountain; California, Catalina Island; Puerto
Rico; Virgin Islands; Haiti; Jamaica; Quebec and the Gaspe;
New England State.
Instructor, School of Art Institute, Chicago, Ill. ’26-‘27
Instructor, Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, Chicago, Ill. ’41-‘42
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