Elena Jahn

Elena Jahn (May 3, 1938, in Moscow, Idaho — November 26, 2014, in Brunswick, Maine) was an artist noted for both figurative paintings and landscapes and for her connection to Monhegan Island, Maine.

Biography Jahn was born on May 3, 1938, in Moscow, Idaho, to Helen (née Schumann) and Edwin C. Jahn.

Jahn received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Syracuse University and a Master of Fine Arts the University of Wisconsin, followed by studies in Paris on a Fulbright Grant. She had college and university teaching positions in art departments in Wisconsin, Rhode Island, and Maine and in Nova Scotia and Norway. they had a daughter and a son.

She exhibited at the Portland Museum of Art in its "Maine Perspectives" series in 1991 with a solo display of work from Maine and Puerto Rico. In 2015 her work was displayed retrospectively at the Heron Point Gallery in Portland.