J. LeBrun Jenkins

American landscape and seascape painter, J. LeBrun Jenkins, was born in New York City on October 5, 1876. After his early education there he moved to St. Louis, Missouri, where he resided for the rest of his life in a house with a studio located at 351 S. Maple Avenue in Webster Groves, a suburb of St. Louis. At the age of eighteen years old, Jenkins was first employed as a commercial artist at the St. Louis Chronicle in 1894. He moved on to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in 1897. Later he worked for a number of art-related area companies in St. Louis including the Gray Engraving Company, the Barnes-Crosby Advertising Company and the Gardiner Advertising firm from 1900 to 1909, when he decided to de...