Elsie Palmer Payne (1884-1971) . Elsie Palmer Payne was born September 9, 1884 in San Antonio, Texas and was the youngest of 8 children. The Palmer family moved to San Francisco in 1889 where her... Read full biography
Elsie Palmer Payne (1884-1971) . Elsie Palmer Payne was born September 9, 1884 in San Antonio, Texas and was the youngest of 8 children. The Palmer family moved to San Francisco in 1889 where her father worked in real estate and her mother taught classes in art and music. At an early age, Payne was... Read full biography
Elsie Palmer Payne (1884-1971) . Elsie Palmer Payne was born September 9, 1884 in San Antonio, Texas and was the youngest of 8 children. The Palmer family moved to San Francisco in 1889 where her father worked in real estate and her mother taught classes in art and music. At an early age, Payne was strongly influenced by art. After she graduated from high school in San Francisco, she attended the Best Art School in San Francisco for her formal art training from 1903-1905. She pursued a... Read full biography
Elsie Palmer Payne (1884-1971) . Elsie Palmer Payne was born September 9, 1884 in San Antonio, Texas and was the youngest of 8 children. The Palmer family moved to San Francisco in 1889 where her father worked in real estate and her mother taught classes in art and music. At an early age, Payne was strongly influenced by art. After she graduated from high school in San Francisco, she attended the Best Art School in San Francisco for her formal art training from 1903-1905. She pursued a classical curriculum starting with drawing from antique casts, life drawing, to the use of color. During and after her studies, she worked in advertising as a commercial artist from 1904-1907. In 1909, she met Edgar Payne in San Francisco and married him... Read full biography
Elsie Palmer Payne (1884-1971) . Elsie Palmer Payne was born September 9, 1884 in San Antonio, Texas and was the youngest of 8 children. The Palmer family moved to San Francisco in 1889 where her father worked in real estate and her mother taught classes in art and music. At an early age, Payne was strongly influenced by art. After she graduated from high school in San Francisco, she attended the Best Art School in San Francisco for her formal art training from 1903-1905. She pursued a classical curriculum starting with drawing from antique casts, life drawing, to the use of color. During and after her studies, she worked in advertising as a commercial artist from 1904-1907. In 1909, she met Edgar Payne in San Francisco and married him when she took a trip to Chicago on November 1912. The couple lived in Chicago for five years where Elsie would assist Edgar with his mural co... Read full biography
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