Will Howe Foote

Background

Foote, Will Howe was born on June 29, 1874 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States. Son of Elija Hedding and Frances (Howe) Foote.

Education

Art studies The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Art Students’ League, New York, Julian Academy, Paris, under Jean Paul Laurens and Benjamin Constant.

Career

Instructor, Art Students’ League, 1902-1906. Field officer American Red Cross in France, World War. Honorary mention, Buffalo Exposition, 1901.

3d Hallgarten prize National Academy of Design, 1902.

Bronze medal, Saint Louis Exposition, 1904. Silver medal, Panama Philippine Islands Exposition, San Francisco, 1915.

West. South. Eaton purchase prize, Lyme Art Association, 1925. Association prize, 1927, and Goodman prize same association, 1932, 35, 37.

A.N.A., 1910.

Achievements

• Will Howe Foote has been listed as a notable artist. by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member Lyme Art Association. Member Grand Rapids Art Association. Club: Century.

Connections

Married Helen Kirtland Freeman, October 8, 1907. Children: Freeman, Katharine Howe (Mistress Roland West. Thompson).

Father:

Elija Hedding Foote

Mother:

Frances (Howe) Foote

Spouse:

Helen Kirtland Freeman

child:

Freeman Foote

child:

Katharine Howe Foote (Mistress Roland West. Thompson)