Born in Dayton, Ohio, and growing up there, Elanor Colburn studied at the Art Institute of Chicago a total of eight years, and also served for one year, 1900, as an assistant teacher. In addition she... Read full biography
Born in Dayton, Ohio, and growing up there, Elanor Colburn studied at the Art Institute of Chicago a total of eight years, and also served for one year, 1900, as an assistant teacher. In addition she studied with William Merritt Chase and Frank Duveneck. She remained active in Chicago until 1924,... Read full biography
Born in Dayton, Ohio, and growing up there, Elanor Colburn studied at the Art Institute of Chicago a total of eight years, and also served for one year, 1900, as an assistant teacher. In addition she studied with William Merritt Chase and Frank Duveneck. She remained active in Chicago until 1924, when she moved to Laguna Beach, California with her well-known artist daughter, Ruth Eaton Peabody. They built a studio on the South Coast Highway where they lived, painted and taught. In 1927, having... Read full biography
Born in Dayton, Ohio, and growing up there, Elanor Colburn studied at the Art Institute of Chicago a total of eight years, and also served for one year, 1900, as an assistant teacher. In addition she studied with William Merritt Chase and Frank Duveneck. She remained active in Chicago until 1924, when she moved to Laguna Beach, California with her well-known artist daughter, Ruth Eaton Peabody. They built a studio on the South Coast Highway where they lived, painted and taught. In 1927, having recovered from some prolonged spells of illness, she resumed her painting career with seriousness, and having developed an interest in Native American culture, began traveling for subjects including to the Navajo Reservation in Arizona. She also... Read full biography
Born in Dayton, Ohio, and growing up there, Elanor Colburn studied at the Art Institute of Chicago a total of eight years, and also served for one year, 1900, as an assistant teacher. In addition she studied with William Merritt Chase and Frank Duveneck. She remained active in Chicago until 1924, when she moved to Laguna Beach, California with her well-known artist daughter, Ruth Eaton Peabody. They built a studio on the South Coast Highway where they lived, painted and taught. In 1927, having recovered from some prolonged spells of illness, she resumed her painting career with seriousness, and having developed an interest in Native American culture, began traveling for subjects including to the Navajo Reservation in Arizona. She also painted in Palm Springs, (Primordial Days in Palm Springs); New Mexico (In the Pueblo) and among... Read full biography
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Santa Cruz Art League Statewide Art Exhibition Index, First through Twenty-Seventh, 1928-1957 (Publications in California Art, No. 12)
2015
Moure, Nancy Dustin Wall
547 pages
Emerging from the Shadows: Volume One (A-D) A Survey of Women Artists Working in California, 1860-1960
2015
St. Gaudens, Maurine (Editor)
0 pages (color)
Arizona's Pioneering Women Artists: Impressions of the Grand Canyon State Directory Listing of 479 Women Before 1945 (Exhibition catalog)