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Russell Cheney Timeline
| 1881 |
October 16, born Manchester, Connecticut, |
| 1901–04 |
Yale College, Class of 1904 |
| 1904–07 |
Studies at Art Students League, New York |
| 1907–10 | Studies at Academie Julian, Paris |
| 1910–11 | President, Art Students League, New York City |
| 1911 | Exhibits at Salon des Artistes Français, Paris |
| 1912–1915 | Establishes studio in Manchester, Connecticut; paints in Maine, Santa Fe, southern California; solo exhibitions in New Haven and at the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut |
| 1916 | Paints in Topsham, Vermont and Woodstock, New York; diagnosed with TB, enters Cragmor Sanatorium, Colorado Springs |
| 1917 | Paints in Colorado Springs; solo exhibition at Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford; Society of Independent Artists, New York City |
| 1916–21 | Paints in Connecticut and Vermont |
| 1919–20 | Exhibits at Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford; Portland, Maine |
| 1921–22 | Exhibits in Santa Barbara, California; Buffalo, NY; at Babcock Galleries, New York City; Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford |
| 1923 | Exhibits in Colorado Springs, Colorado; San Francisco, California; New York City; spends summer in France with niece & husband, Helen and Farwell Knapp; winters with H. Phelps and Ruth Putnam in Calais, France |
| 1924 | Solo exhibitions in Oakland, California; at Babcock Galleries, New York City; Hartford and Washington, DC galleries; travels to France and Italy, meets F.O. Matthiessen |
| 1925–26 | Paints and solo exhibitions in Santa Barbara and Pasadena, California; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford. |
| 1927 | Solo exhibitions Babcock Galleries, New York City; Wadsworth Atheneum; portrait of F.O. Matthiessen invited into the Modern Group, National Academy of Design exhibition, New York City; begins summering in Kittery, Maine |
| 1928–29 | Changes representation to Montross Gallery, New York City; solo exhibitions at Montross, and Yale Art Gallery; group shows in New York City, Hartford, Philadelphia, Chicago |
| 1930 | Paints and exhibits in Santa Fe, New Mexico; New York City, Hartford; buys old house in Kittery with F.O. Matthiessen, builds studio on the grounds |
| 1931–32 | Group shows in Chicago, Cleveland, Hartford, Ogunquit, Maine, and Addison Gallery, Andover, Massachusetts; solo exhibitions in San Antonio, Texas; at Montross, New York City; Hartford; Santa Fe; Santa Barbara, San Diego, and San Francisco; 1931 paints in Europe; 1932 recovers from appendectomy. |
| 1933 | One of the American artists at the Century of Progress Worlds Fair |
| 1934–35 | Exhibits at Montross Gallery; Grace Horne Gallery, Boston; and in Hartford; Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe; Addison Gallery, Andover, Massachusetts; Portsmouth; and group shows Ogunquit, Maine and Century Club, New York City |
| 1936–41 | Exhibits at Grace Horne Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts; in Portland and Kittery Point, Maine; Portsmouth, New Hampshire; new representation at Ferargil Gallery, New York City; summer 1938 walks Irish coast; fall 1938 visits Germany and Russia |
| 1940–45 | Hospitalized several times for alcoholism, paints Portsmouth, Kittery, and Texas; exhibitions in Santa Fe; Abilene, Texas |
| 1945 | July 12 dies at home in Kittery, Maine |