Dulah Marie Llan Evans Krehbiel (American, 1875 to 1951)
Dulah Evans Krehbiel (1875 to 1951) was born to a pioneer family in Oskaloosa, Iowa. She graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago, and did postgraduate work at the Art Students League in New York, where she won many first place awards in illustration classes under the instruction of Walter Appleton Clark. She also studied at the Charles Hawthorne School in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and at the New York School of Art under William Merritt Chase. She held a place in the prestigious Tree Studio building in Chicago from 1903 through 1905 along with other well-known artists such as Pauline Palmer, Walter Marshall Clute, and Louis Betts.
Becoming a successful commercial artist, Dulah illustrated covers for several publications, including Ladies Home Journal, Harper’s Bazaar, and Leslie’s Illustrated Weekly. Dulah left Park Ridge for New York City in 1930, hoping to further her career as a modernistic painter. It appears that she was successful in establishing a market for her artwork there at the Salons of America and the Society of Independent Artists.
Information courtesy of Cowan’s Auctions Inc., February 2005.