Mrs. Emma Leone Lane (Payne) was a Cuyahoga County, Ohio artist who was born in Oct 1857 in Canada and died in Euclid, Ohio on 10 January 1943. Her original training as a crayon artist was undertaken in the drafting room of her architect brother, Samuel W. Lane. She attended theWestern Reserve School of Design for Women in Cleveland, which later became the Cleveland School of Art.

Emma shared a studio in Cleveland City Hall in the 1890s with fellow Cleveland artists Arabella Copeland and Elizabeth B. Black, where she developed an interest in watercolors
and illustrations. She studied watercolor art at the Cleveland School of Art under prominent artist Frederick Carl Gottwald starting in 1897, and at some point, studied under New ...