Jessie Kalmbach Chase

Jessie Kalmbach Chase (November 22, 1879 – October 1970) was a fine art painter based in Wisconsin. Much of her work showing Wisconsin landscapes was inspired by the views available in her native Door County.

Birth and early life Jessie was born on November 22, 1879, in Baileys Harbor, Wisconsin. She married Wilfred Chase and lived with him in Madison.

Career Chase studied design at and graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago before becoming a stained glass window designer for an art glass company in Chicago; in this work she would often prepare water color paintings to demonstrate the design before producing a window. Her work was also distributed through the Madison Art association to galleries statewide, such as for an exhibit at the Sawyer Foundation in Oshkosh in 1926 and at the Milwaukee Journal's Gallery of Wisconsin Art in 1929. In the 1930s, as her body of work grew, Chase had individual exhibitions at museums across the state such as at the Little Gallery in Manitowoc in 1936.

In 1933–34, she was employed by the Works Progress Administration's Public Works of Art Project. Two of her murals were also installed at the Door County Library in 2010.