Georgia Leigh Johnson [Caldwell] (1892-1936) -- student

Born in Jeffersonville, Indiana in October 1892, Georgia Leigh Johnson's family eventually settled in River Forest, Illinois, a Chicago suburb. There, they purchased a property they would call Auvergne Lodge, commonly known as the Winslow House (1894), the first home that Frank Lloyd Wright designed as an independent architect. The commission, requested by Herman Winslow, has grounds that feature a stable originally used as the operations site for Winslow's small publishing house, Auvergne Press. The home became part of the National Register of Historic Places in 1970. While part of this prominent, Chicago family, Georgia pursued art studies with the esteemed, Oak Park, Illinois artist, Carl R. Krafft and attended the Art Institute of Chicago (AIC) from 1914-1915. Johnson soon married Shaw Hutson Caldwell, a manager with Sears Roebuck. The couple had two daughters, and Caldwell continued her artistic endeavors while the family lived in River Forest, Illinois.

Caldwell participated in two exhibitions of Chicago artists at the Art Institute of Chicago, showing "Winter on the Desplaines"(1923) and other works in a 1927 show. Widowed in 1925, Caldwell returned to her parents' home with her children, became involved with local civil rights efforts (West Side Fellowship of Faiths), and attended the Stone City art colony in 1933. She was also president of the Zonta Club (now known as Zonta International), an organization devoted, in its early years, to equal education for women and gender equity in employment. Caldwell was a member of the Oak Park Art League and the Allied Arts Society. She remained in the community and died there in January 1936.