Edna Palmer Engelhardt - Artist Info

About Edna Palmer Engelhardt

  • Biography

    The following is from Jeffrey Mattison of Manville, New Jersey, and is from a Monroe County publication titled Woman Who Made History in Monroe County. Dated 1995, the article was written by Helen Brown and Mary Henning:

    Edna Palmer Engelhardt was a professional artist from 1935 and became known for her paintings of early farm life and winter landscapes of the Poconos. In 1962, her painting of Big Pocono Mountain was placed in the lounge of the US Navy Flagship "Poconos."

    Her family were early pioneers of Pocono, and she grew up on a farm in Paradise Valley. There was no school, so her mother taught the children at home for the first eight grades. Later a Scranton businessman sponsored Edna and her sis...

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