Judith Wragg Chase

Background

Chase, Judith Wragg was born on February 18, 1907 in Augusta, Georgia, United States. Daughter of Samuel Alston and Emma Louise (Sparks) Wragg.

Education

Student, William Smith College, 1923-1924; student, Cooper Union Art School, 1924-1927; Bachelor, Syracuse University, 1960.

Career

On professional stage, New York City, 1927-1928; advertising artist, Barron Collier, Inc., New York City, 1928-1930; professional artist, illustrator, 1927-1947; free-lance advertising artist, Panama, 1931-1933; art director, Fort Benning (Georgia) Children's School, 1930-1931; art director, Manlius (New York) Military School, 1957-1960; owner private art school, teacher high school art, Charlottesville, Virginia, 1944-1947; housemother, Pine Manor Junior College, 1954-1955; guidance counselor, Lancaster (Massachusetts) School for Delinquent Girls, 1956-1957; music curator, educational director, Old Slave Mart Museum, Charleston, South Carolina., since 1960; professional photographer, since 1968; library director, The Old Slave Mart Museum Library. Tour director Chase Teen Tours to Europe, Manlius, New York, summers 1958-1960;lecturer in field.

Achievements

• Judith Wragg Chase has been listed as a noteworthy museum curator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Afro-American art and craft

    (1st ed. Quarto. Cloth. 142 pp, illustrations. Nice lookin...)

  • Afro-American art and craft.
  • AFRO- AMERICAN ART & CRAFT

Membership

Board trustees Miriam B. Wilson Foundation, Charleston, since 1963. Active Charleston Bi-Centennial Black History Committee. Member American Association State and Local History, South Carolina.

Hist Society, South Carolina. Preservation Society, Southern Association Africanists, Association for Study of Afro-American Life and History, Authors Guild, Authors League American, International Speakers Network, Carolina Art Association, Charleston Library. Society, South Carolina.

Council on Human Rights.

Connections

Married Richard Chase, July 18, 1931. Children: Richard Conant, Alston Sparks, Pamela Wragg (Mistress Peter Murray Hain).

Father:

Samuel Alston Wragg

Mother:

Emma Louise (Sparks) Wragg

Spouse:

Richard Chase

child:

Alston Sparks Chase

child:

Pamela Wragg Chase (Mistress Peter Murray Hain)

child:

Richard Conant Chase