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Bessie Bennett

Bessie Bennett (1870 - 1939) was active/lived in Illinois, Ohio.  Bessie Bennett is known for Jewelry design, museum curator, metalwork.

A silversmith and art educator in Chicago, Bessie Bennett was a graduate of the Art Institute of Chicago and then was employed at the Art Institute, first as assistant to the Director of Textiles and decorative objects and later as Curator of Decorative Art.  According to the bulletin of the Art Institute, October 1907, she, when assistant to the Director, toured France by automobile for two months studying French faience, wood carvings, tapestries and ecclesiastical sculpture. 

In 1894, she was part of the reorganization of The Decorative Art Society of Chicago.

In Chicago, she was unique as a professional female of her era because she had her own metalworking studio, which was located in the downtown near the Kalo Shop, a leather product studio, well known during the Arts and Crafts era of the early 20th Century.

She died in 1939.  A Bessie Bennett Endowment Fund was established in her memory at the Art Institute.

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