page_title: Grace Chandler
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Grace Chandler / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: A portrait of an Ojibwa performer in Petoskey, by Grace Chandler Horn, from a 1912 publication.
context_page_description: Grace Chandler, also known as Grace Chandler Horn, was an American photographer based in Michigan, best known for her photographs of Native American subjects.
context_section_description: Chandler started her work in photographer as an assistant to her brother, Charlie Chandler, at his photography studio. As Grace Chandler Horn, she operated the Horn Art Shop in Petoskey, Michigan with her husband from 1899 to 1913, and then on her own. Her shop was part of the tourist attractions built around the annual "Hiawatha Pageant" in Petoskey, so its best sellers were prints and postcards related to that event. Her photographs of the Ojibwe performers and scenes in the pageant were published in 1911 as illustrations in an edition of Longfellow's The Song of Hiawatha. A second volume featuring her work appeared the next year, as an illustrated libretto of the pageant, published by the railroad. 
  In 1917 her Native American and nature photographs were exhibited by the Arts Association of Grand Rapids, Michigan. In 1923 she moved to Los Angeles, California and opened the Grace Chandler Studio. Her photographs included California landscapes, animal studies, and portraits. She did her own hand-coloring on some images.
caption: A portrait of an Ojibwe performer in Petoskey, by Grace Chandler Horn, from a 1912 publication.
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