Notable burials · Arts and entertainment
Painters, sculptors and photographers buried in Illinois
Wikidata records 94 artists as buried in 42 of the cemeteries we list in Illinois. Graceland Cemetery in Chicago holds the most, with 22. Illinois has the 6th highest count of any state, out of 2,295 nationally.
People recorded as painters, sculptors, photographers, illustrators or visual artists.
94
artists
42
cemeteries
3%
of notable burials in Illinois
1960s
the decade with the most deaths (13)
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In order of death
Painters, sculptors and photographers buried in Illinois
- Cornelius Krieghoff1815-1872Dutch Canadian painterGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Jordan H. Abbott1830-1879American photographerGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Carlo Gentile1835-1893Italian photographerMount Hope Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- George Peter Alexander Healy1813-1894American painterCalvary Catholic Cemetery, Evanston, IL
- Leonard Volk1828-1895United States sculptorRosehill Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Lewis M. Melander1845-1900American photographerGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Ellen Rankin Copp1853-1901American sculptorAtlanta Cemetery, Atlanta, IL
- Adolphus Van Sickle1835-1905American artist and photographerOak Grove Cemetery, Beardstown, IL
- John C. Gilbert1871-1905American illustratorForest Home Cemetery, Forest Park, IL
- Frederick Warren Freer1849-1908American painterGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Edric L. Eaton1835-1909American, 1836-1890Oakwoods Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Daniel Folger Bigelow1823-1910American painterOakwoods Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Emile A. Nelson1873-1913American illustratorMalta Cemetery, Malta, IL
- Walter Burridge1857-191319th-20th century scene painterForest Home Cemetery, Forest Park, IL
- William Cornelius Van Horne1843-1915American-Canadian businessman and art collectorOakwood Cemetery, Ingalls Park, IL
- Justus Zahn1847-1918American photographerWalnut Hill Cemetery, Belleville, IL
- Abraham M. Byers1836-1920American photographer, made a portrait of LincolnAledo Cemetery, Aledo, IL
- John B. Scholl1857-1924American photographerRosehill Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Eda Lord Dixon1876-1926American artistLake Forest Cemetery, Lake Forest, IL
- Matthew J. Steffens1851-1928American photographerMount Greenwood Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Silas Peter Melander1850-1929American photographerGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Vachel Lindsay1879-1931American poetOak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, IL
- Abner Crossman1846-1932PainterMount Hope Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Frank M. Hallenbeck1874-1933American photographerMount Hope Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Alfred Juergens1866-1934American painterGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Lorado Taft1860-1936American sculptor and writerElmwood Township Cemetery, Elmwood, IL
- Herbert B. Brooks1882-1936American photographer and postcard publisherMount Carmel Cemetery, Hillside, IL
- Arnaldo Casella Tamburini1885-1936American artistForest Home Cemetery, Forest Park, IL
- Adele Fay Williams1859-1937American artistOakwood Cemetery, Ingalls Park, IL
- Robert Carl Berlin1851-1937American artistGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- August Petrtyl1867-1937Czech-American painter and illustratorBohemian National Cemetery of Chicago, Chicago, IL
- Margaret A. Brooks1860-1938American photographer and postcard publisherMount Carmel Cemetery, Hillside, IL
- Charles Abel Corwin1857-1938American artistGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- George Ames Aldrich1872-1941American painterOakwoods Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Beatrice Field1888-1941American artist, painter, lecturer and teacher (1888- )Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, IL
- Enella Benedict1858-1942American painterRosehill Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- King Daniel Ganaway1882-1944American photographerLincoln Cemetery, Blue Island, IL
- Donn P. Crane1878-1944American illustratorOakwoods Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Albert Henry Krehbiel1873-1945American painterAcacia Park Cemetery and Mausoleum, Norridge, IL
- László Moholy-Nagy1895-1946Hungarian artistGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- William Carqueville1871-1946American painter, engraver and affichisteForest Home Cemetery, Forest Park, IL
- Lydia Moore Hart1864-1948American scientific illustratorWoodland Cemetery, Quincy, IL
- Eleanor Josephine Johnson Slaughter1880-1949American socialite, bear hunter, photographer and cinematographerRosehill Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Grace Hall Hemingway1872-1951American painterForest Home Cemetery, Forest Park, IL
- John Conrad Hansen1869-1952Norwegian-American scientific illustratorIrving Park Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Karl Albert Buehr1866-1952German artistGlen Oak Cemetery, Hillside, IL
- Frederic Clay Bartlett1873-1953Painter and art collectorGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Hugh Doak Rankin1878-1956American artistAtlanta Cemetery, Atlanta, IL
- Ernest Martin Hennings1886-1956American artistMemorial Park Cemetery, Skokie, IL
- Robert Zuppke1879-1957American football coachRoselawn Cemetery, Champaign, IL
- Yaro Victor Brozek1898-1959Czech American painter, vice-president of Bohemian arts club, and US WWI soldierUnion Ridge Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Charles Daniel Frey1886-1959American advertising executive and illustratorOakwoods Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Charles R. Childs1875-1960American photographer and postcard publisherMount Olive Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Max Thorek1880-1960American surgeonRosehill Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Marion Mahony Griffin1871-1961American architect and artistGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Magda Heuermann1858-1962American artistGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Jun Fujita1888-1963American photojournalist and actorGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Mabel Sykes1883-1963American photographerHomewood Memorial Gardens, Homewood, IL
- Mary Agnes Chase1869-1963U.S. botanist, botanical collector and scientific illustratorRosehill Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- John Christen Johansen1876-1964American artistOakwoods Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Helen Steele Pratt1883-1965American ornithologist, teacher and botanical collectorDiamond Grove Cemetery, South Jacksonville, IL
- Narcissa Niblack Thorne1882-1966American miniaturistRosehill Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Augusta Anne Swawite1891-1967American educator and visual artistRosemont Park Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- James McCracken1875-1967American illustratorOak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, IL
- August Frederick Haase1880-1968American photographer and postcard publisherCedar Park Cemetery, Calumet Park, IL
- Ethel R. Cline1894-1970American illustrator, writer, and soprano singerEdgar Cemetery, Paris, IL
- Frances Beem1881-1971American writer, illustrator, and art teacherMount Hope Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Blanche Fisher Wright1887-1971Children's books illustratorBluff City Cemetery, Elgin, IL
- Osborne Theomun Olsen1883-1971Chicago china decoratorAcacia Park Cemetery and Mausoleum, Norridge, IL
- Richard Nickel1928-1972American photographer and architectural preservationistGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Hazel Frazee1889-1972American illustrator, printmaker, watercoloristOakwoods Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Henry Darger1892-1973Author, artistAll Saints Catholic Cemetery and Mausoleum, Des Plaines, IL
- Arthur S. Siegel1913-1978American photographerGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Sylvia Shaw Judson1897-1978American artistGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Genevieve Foster1893-1979American children's writerGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Adomas Varnas1879-1979Lithuanian painter, photographer, collector, philanthropist and educatorLithuanian National Cemetery, Justice, IL
- Mykhailyna Stefanovych-Olshanska1895-1981Ukrainian painterSaint Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Archibald Motley1891-1981African American artistMount Olivet Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Bruce Goff1904-1982American architectGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Sylvia Birch Halperin1931-1984American artistMemorial Park Cemetery, Skokie, IL
- Helen Balfour Morrison1900-1984American photographerRosehill Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Elizabeth Norton1887-1985American artistGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Matilda Breuer1891-1986American illustratorMemorial Park Cemetery, Skokie, IL
- Gladys Rourke Blackwood1902-1992Artist, illustrator, designer, created first paper doll booksCedarville Cemetery, Freeport, IL
- H. Charles McBarron, Jr.1902-1992American artistCalvary Catholic Cemetery, Evanston, IL
- William Walton1909-1994Journalist and abstract expressionist painter from the United StatesDiamond Grove Cemetery, South Jacksonville, IL
- Evelyn Bartlett1886-1997American artist and art patronGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Shel Silverstein1930-1999American poet, cartoonist, songwriter, and children's writerWestlawn Cemetery and Mausoleum, Norridge, IL
- Maria Harasowska-Daczyszyn1911-2000American painterSaint Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- John Ott1909-2000American photographerGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Ed Paschke1939-2004American painterGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Bob Waldmire1945-2009American artistMotterville Cemetery, Rochester, IL
- Victor Albert Grigas1919-2017PhotographerAbraham Lincoln National Cemetery, Elwood, IL
- Thomas H. Kapsalis1925-2022American artistElmwood Cemetery and Mausoleum, River Grove, IL
Everyone on this list, by year of death. People without a recorded death year come last.
Over time
Deaths by decade
- 1870s2
- 1890s3
- 1900s6
- 1910s5
- 1920s5
- 1930s12
- 1940s10
- 1950s9
- 1960s13
- 1970s11
- 1980s7
- 1990s5
- 2000s4
- 2010s1
- 2020s1
By recorded year of death, for the 94 people with one.
Cemeteries
Where they are buried
- Graceland Cemetery · Chicago, IL22
- Rosehill Cemetery · Chicago, IL8
- Oakwoods Cemetery · Chicago, IL7
- Forest Home Cemetery · Forest Park, IL5
- Mount Hope Cemetery · Chicago, IL4
- Oak Ridge Cemetery · Springfield, IL3
- Memorial Park Cemetery · Skokie, IL3
- Calvary Catholic Cemetery · Evanston, IL2
- Mount Carmel Cemetery · Hillside, IL2
- Saint Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Cemetery · Chicago, IL2
- Acacia Park Cemetery and Mausoleum · Norridge, IL2
- Diamond Grove Cemetery · South Jacksonville, IL2
- Atlanta Cemetery · Atlanta, IL2
- Oakwood Cemetery · Ingalls Park, IL2
- Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery · Elwood, IL1
- Mount Olivet Cemetery · Chicago, IL1
- Lithuanian National Cemetery · Justice, IL1
- All Saints Catholic Cemetery and Mausoleum · Des Plaines, IL1
- Rosemont Park Cemetery · Chicago, IL1
- Westlawn Cemetery and Mausoleum · Norridge, IL1
- Lincoln Cemetery · Blue Island, IL1
- Elmwood Cemetery and Mausoleum · River Grove, IL1
- Bohemian National Cemetery of Chicago · Chicago, IL1
- Cedar Park Cemetery · Calumet Park, IL1
- Glen Oak Cemetery · Hillside, IL1
Top 25 of 42 cemeteries. The map shows all of them.
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Other notable burials in Illinois
Business leaders265United States representatives260Writers and poets238Baseball players201Musicians and singers191Journalists129Physicians93American Civil War veterans88Actors80American football players78Architects74World War II veterans71World War I veterans70Scientists66Medal of Honor recipients57Inventors and engineers55Basketball players51Governors31United States senators25
Method
How this list is made
A person is on this list when their Wikidata entry gives a cemetery we list as their place of burial and also carries the statement this list is built on. We do not add anyone by judgment, so the list reflects how complete Wikidata is: some people are missing, and burial places can be disputed.
Names, years and descriptions are shown as Wikidata records them. Names link to Wikipedia where an English article exists.