biography of Elsie Palmer PAYNE (1884-1971)

Birth place: San Antonio, TX

Death place: Minneapolis, MN

Addresses: Los Angeles, CA

Profession: Painter, teacher, lecturer

Studied: Best's Art Sch., San Francisco; Chicago Acad. FA.

Exhibited: AIC, 1913, 1916; Paris, 1925; NAWA, 1930; NAD, 1930; Ebell Club, Los Angeles, 1932-42, 1943 (prize); Calif. WCS; Riverside Mus., 1944; 1941-43; Laguna Beach AA, 1951 (prize); LACMA, 1941, 1942 (prize), 1943, 1944 (prize); Calif. AC, 1943 (prize); Greek Theatre, Los Angeles, 1948 (prize), 1949 (prize); Pasadena AI, 1950 (prize); Laguna Beach Art Festival, 1952 (prize).

Member: Laguna Beach AA (a founder); Women Painters of the West (a founder); Calif. Art Club; Calif. WCS; Artists of the Southwest; Soc. for Sanity in Art; Nat. Soc. Arts & Letters; AAPL

Work: public schools in Laguna Beach, Los Angeles; bronze plaque, entrance to Laguna Beach Art Gal.

Comments: Married Edgar Payne (see entry) in 1912; they lived on the East and West coast, traveling and exhibiting for two years in Europe, 1922-24. They permanently moved to Beverly Hills in 1932 and separated the following year. Publisher/ distr.: Composition of Outdoor Painting, by Edgar A. Payne. Founder: Elsie Palmer Art Sch., Beverly Hills, 1934.

Sources: WW59; WW47. More recently, see Hughes, Artists of California, 428; Trenton, ed. Independent Spirits.