Hauling and Harrowing

Timeline

The Museum will be closed Sunday, April 9 in observance of Easter.

1800s

1871

Born, Cincinnati, Ohio

1890s

Attends Ohio Mechanics Institute

1890s

Attends Art Academy of Cincinnati as pupil of Frank Duveneck

1897

Marriage to Jessica (Jessie) Willis

1897

Loans two of his watercolors to Cincinnati Art Museum

1897

Exhibits at New York Water Color Club

1898

Moves to New York for training at Art Students League and National Academy of Design

1898

Exhibits at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

1898

Birth of son Robert

1899

Birth of daughter Ruth

1900 - 1909

1900

Receives Frank Duveneck Scholarship

1903

Paints first cow picture based on scene at dairy in the Bronx

1905

Exhibits at Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition, Portland

1906

Pure Food and Drug Act

1906

Wife leaves

1907

Volkert divorce

1909

Custody battle for daughter Ruth

1910 - 1919

1910

Exhibits at Corcoran Gallery of Art

1911

Mycology research with New York Botanical Garden naturalist W. A. Murrill

1913

Billboards of Volkert’s Christmas image, The Nativity, installed widely

1913

Father Phillip Volkert dies

1913

Exhibits at American Water Color Society

1914

Allied American Artists established with Volkert in leadership role

1914

Easter billboards with image by Volkert installed nationally

1914

Exhibition at Closson Galleries, Cincinnati

1914

Exhibits at New York Water Color Club

1914

Exhibits at American Water Color Society

1914

Lyme Art Association incorporated

1915

Exhibition at Cincinnati Art Museum

1920 - 1929

1920

Exhibition at Closson Galleries, Cincinnati

1920

Exhibits at American Watercolor Society

1920

Receives New York Watercolor Club Prize

1920

Exhibits with Six American Painters at Milch Galleries

1921

Serves as secretary of LAA (need inclusive dates)

1921

Made Associate Member of National Academy of Design

1921

Reunited with daughter Ruth Volkert Middleton

1921

Salmagundi Club Summer Exhibition

1921

Exhibits at Duveneck Society of Cincinnati

1921

Exhibits at Ohio State Fair

1921

Exhibits at Atlanta Fair

1921

Exhibits at Ehrich Gallery with Six American Artists

1921

Exhibits at New York Water Color Club

1922

Exhibits at Macbeth Gallery with Society of Animal Painters and Sculptors

1922

Exhibits at New York Watercolor Club and American Watercolor Society

1922

Exhibits at Carnegie Institute

1922

Buys house on Sterling City Road in Lyme, Connecticut (date from our files)

1922

Exhibits at Carnegie International

1922

Co-founds Bronx Artists’ Guild of Artists, holds first exhibition

1922-23

Federation New York Society of Painters

1923

Exhibits at Grand Central Art Gallery, New York

1923

Exhibits at Salmagundi Club Thumb Box Exhibition

1923

Exhibits at The Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles

1923

Exhibit at Milwaukee Art Institute

1923

Duveneck Society of Cincinnati Exhibition

1923

Salmagundi Thumb Box Exhibition

1923

Exhibits at National Academy of Design (Nov. –Dec.)

1924

Boston Art Club

1924

Holds exhibition in Paris

1925

First exhibits at Lyme Art Association

1925

Receives Cooper Prize from Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts

1926

Exhibits at Wesleyan University

1929

Exhibits at Traxel Galleries

1929

Receives Gedney Bunce Prize

1929

Exhibits at Macbeth Galleries with Lyme artists

1930 - 1935

1930

Exhibits at Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts

1930

Mother Catherine Dair Volkert dies in May

1930

Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts

1930

Wins Burton Mansfield Prize from New Haven Paint & Clay Club

1931-35

Member, New Haven Paint & Clay Club

1932

Volkert murals dedicated at Western Hills High School, Cincinnati

1932

Daughter Ruth Volker Middleton dies

1932

Receives Mrs. and Mrs. William O. Goodman Sketch Group Prize from Lyme Art Association

1935

Dies March 4