About Elsie Philippa Palmer Payne

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    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 hi...

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