About

Arlice

Arlice LogoArlice was born in Vienna, Austria , of American parents Fredrick Stadler and Jeannette B. Stadler (Taussig). She began her art studies at the Urania and the Wiener Kuenstler Academy (equivalent of Chicago Art Institute) when only ten years old. Before the war broke out in Austria the family headed back to Chicago, leaving behind much of what the family had created. This included forcefully leaving behind the family printing business and much of the family possessions, which were confiscated by the local Austrian authorities, the police, and the employees.

The family then moved to Chicago when Arlice was age fifteen and she started freelance dress designing and helping in the new family business. Arlice remained active in being a seamstress and creating dresses and using cloth to create art until shortly before her death.

She attended nursing school at Beth Israel in Chicago and graduated. As World War II arrived she joined the U. S. Army Nurse Corps as a Lieutenant, serving two years in the South Pacific.

Early Art History

An alumni of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Arlice studied with many well known artists including Andrene Kaufman (once Director of Fine Arts of the Chicago Art Institute) who described her work as having the stark quality of the great American painter Edward Hooper. She worked for her Master’s Degree in Lithography at the University of Chicago, under “Master Lithographer” Max Kahn.

Artistic Mediums

From 1964, Arlice concentrated on “CREATIVE STONE LITHOGRAPHY“, entirely giving up ceramics, oils and watercolors in favor of this medium. She used the old stone-printing method, which has been sadly neglected due to the scarcity of good lithograph stones. However she was fortunate enough to receive two excellent stones from one of her early tutors, famous European artist Oskar Kokoschka , while on a working trip to Europe, adding them to 3 stones she had purchased on her own.

Art Shows

Arlice was the winner of many competitions, she taught art to adults as well as children , and lectured regularly on this subject, as well as art appreciation. Her works, having been exhibited country wide, as well as Internationally, in one-man shows, as well as numerous Art Exhibits,  gained her recognition as a fine artist. Her show at the 68th and Lexington Gallery in New York City in 1968 secured her as a national fine artist. Arlice returned to the Lexington Gallery and repeated the show in 1969. She then started preparing for a traveling exhibit through several European countries.

Arlice had been listed often in the WFMT Perspective Magazine and the Chicago Education Council Art Guide. She had works presented at the Vincent Price Gallery.

Early Patrons

Among her patrons are such well known Chicago and International Collectors as:

  • Nathan Goldstein
  • Dr. Burton Siegel
  • H. Weinstein.

Her paintings also hang in the collections of:

  • J. Carl of Highland Park
  • Albert Becker of St. Louis, MA.
  • Weil Studios of New York City
  • Lt. Col M. Miller, Airforce, Dayton, Ohio
  • The Rev. Robert Hendrickson, Easton, Pa
  • Dr. John R. Benfield, Madison, WI

One of her lithographs was acquired by the former President, Richard M. Nixon, during a New York Show.