Landscape painter Jessie Agnes Palmer was born on October 19, 1882, in Lawrence, Texas, growing up in Dallas. She would live most of her life in Dallas, where she painted many of her works, though... Read full biography
Landscape painter Jessie Agnes Palmer was born on October 19, 1882, in Lawrence, Texas, growing up in Dallas. She would live most of her life in Dallas, where she painted many of her works, though she also resided for a time in Amarillo, Texas in 1927-1933. As a child, she wanted to be an artist,... Read full biography
Landscape painter Jessie Agnes Palmer was born on October 19, 1882, in Lawrence, Texas, growing up in Dallas. She would live most of her life in Dallas, where she painted many of her works, though she also resided for a time in Amarillo, Texas in 1927-1933. As a child, she wanted to be an artist, but got a very late start in her career due to her marriage and raising a family. It was not until she was in her forties in the 1920s, that she seriously turned to painting, studying with Texas... Read full biography
Landscape painter Jessie Agnes Palmer was born on October 19, 1882, in Lawrence, Texas, growing up in Dallas. She would live most of her life in Dallas, where she painted many of her works, though she also resided for a time in Amarillo, Texas in 1927-1933. As a child, she wanted to be an artist, but got a very late start in her career due to her marriage and raising a family. It was not until she was in her forties in the 1920s, that she seriously turned to painting, studying with Texas artists Frank Reaugh and Martha Simkins, and at the Carlson School of Landscape Painting, in Woodstock, New York. She painted numerous West Texas landscapes while living in Amarillo, when she attended Reaugh's summer classes. She also studied at the... Read full biography
Landscape painter Jessie Agnes Palmer was born on October 19, 1882, in Lawrence, Texas, growing up in Dallas. She would live most of her life in Dallas, where she painted many of her works, though she also resided for a time in Amarillo, Texas in 1927-1933. As a child, she wanted to be an artist, but got a very late start in her career due to her marriage and raising a family. It was not until she was in her forties in the 1920s, that she seriously turned to painting, studying with Texas artists Frank Reaugh and Martha Simkins, and at the Carlson School of Landscape Painting, in Woodstock, New York. She painted numerous West Texas landscapes while living in Amarillo, when she attended Reaugh's summer classes. She also studied at the Broadmoor Art Academy, Colorado Springs, Colorado, during the summers of 1931 and 1932. Her painting, "Springtime near Dallas," was shown in the Texa... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (15)
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The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Texas Painters, Sculptors & Graphic Artists A Biographical Dictionary of Artists in Texas Before 1942
2000
Powers, John & Deborah; Ron Tyler, Foreward
606 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
An Encyclopedia of Women Artists of the American West
1998
Kovinick, Phil; Marian Yoshiki-Kovinick
405 pages
Texas Art and a Wildcatter's Dream
1998
Reaves, William E Jr
92 pages (color)
North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century A Biographical Dictionary
1995
Heller, Jules and Nancy G. Heller
612 pages
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
Artists of the American West: Three Volumes A Biographical Dictionary
1985
Dawdy, Doris
1,184 pages
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
Dictionary of Women Artists: An International Dictionary of Women Artists Born Before 1900
1985
Petteys, Chris with Hazel Gustow, Ferris Olin and Verna Ritchie
851 pages
Dictionary of American Sculptors: 18th Century to Present
1984
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
656 pages
Dictionary of American Artists
1982
Opitz, Glenn
372 pages
Women Artists in America: Eighteenth Century to Present
1973
Collins, Jim L.
426 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index