Elsa Jemne
| Elsa Laubach Jemne | |
|---|---|
| Born |
1888 St. Paul, Minnesota |
| Died | 1947 |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | St. Paul Institute, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts |
| Occupation | Painter, Illustrator |
Elsa Laubach Jemne (1888-1947 ) is an American landscape painter, portraitist, muralist and illustrator born in St. Paul, Minnesota. She attended the St. Paul Institute before continuing her art studies at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.
Education
She was a student of Violet Oakley, Cecilia Beaux, Daniel Garber, Emil Carlsen, and Joseph Pearson.[1] She was awarded the Cresson Traveling Scholarship in both 1914 and 1915. While still a student, Jemne did commercial art, which she found "stupid, uncongenial, & maddening in its monotony." [2]
Life
Elsa Jemne became an advocate for art and culture in her home state of Minnesota in the early 20th Century during the Great Depression. Not interested in commercial art employment, she traveled by bus through-out what is known as "the Iron Range of Northern Minnesota" painting murals depicting local and regionally important themes. She married the portrait artist Frances Cranmer Greenman (1890-1981) and had children. [3] Elsa Laubach Jemne died in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1974.
Work
- Her works for the Federal Art Project includes murals in the
- Hutchinson, Minnesota post office titled The Hutchinson Singers, completed in 1942, egg tempera on plaster,
- Ely, Minnesota post office, 2 tempera on plaster murals titled Iron-Ore Mines and Wilderness,
- Ladysmith, Wisconsin post office, tempera on plaster mural titled Development of the Land, completed in 1938 and painted over,
- Lake Geneva, Wisconsin post office, oil on canvas mural titled Winter Landscape, completed in 1940,
- the Stearns County Courthouse in St. Cloud, Minnesota,
- the Minneapolis Armory.[4][5]
- Central High School, Minneapolis,
- Leamy House, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Nurses Home, St. Luke’s Hospital
- Northern Shores Power Company building
- Women’s City Club, St. Paul, murals and terrazzo floors
- Community House, Brandon, Minnesota, [6]
References
- ↑ McGlauflin, ed., ‘’Who’s Who in American Art 1938-1939” vol.2, The American Federation of Arts, Washington D.C., 1937
- ↑ Holden, Robert. "Rambling Around the Red Rose Girls". paintinglifestories.blog. Painting life stories/Images. Retrieved 24 August 2016.
- ↑ Holden, Robert. "Rambling Around the Red Rose Girls". paintinglifestories.blog. Painting life stories/Images. Retrieved 24 August 2016.
- ↑ "Elsa Jemne". mmaa.org. Retrieved 2016-04-28.
- ↑ McGlauflin, ed., ‘’Who’s Who in American Art 1938-1939” vol.2, The American Federation of Arts, Washington D.C., 1937
- ↑ Opitz, Glenn B, Editor, Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers, Apollo Book, Poughkeepsie NY, 1986