About Elsie Palmer Payne
Lived 1884 – 1971 (aged 86–87). Elsie Palmer Payne was an American painter, sculptor and muralist.
Elsie Palmer Payne (1884 – 1971) was an American painter known for her landscape and genre painting.
Payne was born in San Antonio, Texas on September 9, 1884. She attended Best Art School in San Francisco. In 1912 she married fellow artist Edgar Alwin Payne, with whom she had one child, Evelyn, born in 1914. The couple resided in Chicago for several years and, at that time, Payne assisted her husband in creating several murals. The couple relocated to California in 1918. They both were founding members of the Laguna Beach Art Association.
Her work is in the Laguna Art Museum and the Minneapolis Institute of Art.
In 1988 the Carnegie Art Museum held a retrospective of her work entitled Elsie Palmer Payne; Out of the Shadow.
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American painter (1884–1971)
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Elsie Palmer Payne was born on 9 September 1884 in San Antonio.
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Elsie Palmer Payne died in 1971 in Minneapolis.
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Elsie Palmer Payne was a painter, sculptor and muralist.
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