Jenne Chavaz Magafan

Career In 1939, Jenne was awarded her first commission for a mural at the Albion, Nebraska, Post Office. This would be the first of seven commissions.

Jenne assisted Mechau on several of these commissions. For the Glenwood Springs Post Office, the two artists and another assistant, Edward Chavez, painted Wild Horse Race in 1937. That same year, also for Glenwood Springs, Jenne and Edward painted Decorative Map. The three artists also collaborated on Indian Fight and The Corral for the Colorado Springs Post Office, located in Building 41 of the Denver Federal Center. Jenne also painted murals for post offices in Anson, Texas, and Helper, Utah. Western Town (mural study, Helper, Utah Post Office) ca. 1939-1943 Cowboy Dance (mural study, Anson Texas Post Office), 1941 Cornstalks, 1955

Awards Some of the awards Magafan received are:

State of Colorado Arts and Humanities Award 1949-50 – Tiffany Foundation Fellowship 1971: State of Colorado Arts and Humanities Award Honored by Historic Denver as part of the Colorado 100.

Commissions Some of the commissioned works by Magafan not discussed above are:

Ceiling in drawing room, commissioned by Mrs. Gerald Hughes, Denver, 1936 History of Costume (five murals), Neusteter's, Denver, 1937 Mural room and ranch bar, Albany Hotel, Denver, 1937 WPA mural, Cattle Round-up, US Treasury Department, Eureka, Kansas, 1938 Land Rush, Treasury Department, Sayre, Oklahoma, 1940.

Exhibitions Source: 1934, 1935, 1938 to 1942 – Denver Art Museum, Colorado 1930-49 - International Watercolors, Art Institute of Chicago 1940 – Contemporary Arts, New York City 1940 – Utah Arts Center, Salt Lake City 1944 – Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California 1944 – Raymond & Raymond Gallery, Los Angeles, California 1944 – Scripps College, Claremont, California 1950 – Ganso Gallery, New York City Contemporary American Painting, University of Illinois, 1952 1952 – Woodstock Artists Association, New York, Memorial Exhibition 1954 – Albany Institute of History and Art, New York, Memorial Exhibition Artists West of the Mississippi, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, 1965 73rd Western Anninversary, Denver Art Museum, 1971 1975 – Long Island University, New York, Retrospective Exhibition 1975 – Ulster County Community College, Stone Ridge, New York, Retrospective Exhibition 1976 – Rome Art and Community Center, New York, Retrospective Exhibition

Works Held Among the collections that hold her works are:

Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art, Colorado Colby College Museum of Art, Maine The John H. Vanderpoel Art Association, Illinois.