Betty Lane

Betty Lane (September 30, 1907 – 1996) was an American artist.

Lane's first exhibition was at the Phillips Memorial Gallery in 1931. Lane created figure subjects, portraits, and landscapes executed in watercolor and oil. Her work includes nature and street scenes in the Americas and Europe, domestic scenes, and grotesques.

Lane's work is included in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Phillips Collection, the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, and the Cape Cod Museum of Art.

Life Born in Washington, D.C., on 30 September 1907, Betty (born Elizabeth Thoburn) Lane was the youngest of six children born to a Marine officer, Rufus Herman Lane and Gertrude Eleanor Mills. Lane began painting in watercolor around age nine. After high school Lane enrolled at the Corcoran College of Art and Design. Unhappy at Corcoran, she transferred to the Massachusetts Normal Art School.

Between 1930 and 1939 Lane lived in Cambridge, England, and Paris, France. From 1939 to 1946 Lane was living in Ontario, Canada.

In 1946 Lane moved to the United States, teaching at Miss Porter's School from 1952 until 1965. Lane died in Brewster, Massachusetts, in 1996. WIFP is an American nonprofit publishing organization. The organization works to increase communication between women and connect the public with forms of women-based media.

Gallery

Exhibitions

1931 Washington, D.C. Phillips Memorial Gallery. “April Exhibitions at the Phillips Memorial Gallery. John Marin, Harold Weston, Betty Lane.” 1931 Washington, D.C. Phillips Memorial Gallery. "Watercolors by Betty Lane 1931 (The Washington Room)." 1941 New York. Galerie St. Etienne. 1945 Ontario. Ontario Society of Artists. 1948 New York. 44th Street Gallery. 1948 Barnstable, Massachusetts. Cape Cod Art Association. 2006 Santa Barbara, California. Sullivan Goss. "Betty Lane: The Road Less Taken." 2008 Santa Barbara, California. Sullivan Goss.