Elsa Jemne
| Elsa Laubach Jemne | |
|---|---|
| Born |
1887 St. Paul, Minnesota |
| Died | 1974 |
| Nationality | American |
| Other names | Elsa Jemne |
| Alma mater | St. Paul Institute, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts |
| Occupation | Painter, Illustrator |
Elsa Laubach Jemne (1887–1974) was an American landscape painter, portraitist, muralist and illustrator born in St. Paul, Minnesota. She attended the St. Paul Institute before continuing her art studies at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.
Education
Jemne was a student of Violet Oakley, Cecilia Beaux, Daniel Garber, Emil Carlsen, and Joseph Pearson.[1] She was awarded the Cresson Traveling Scholarship in both 1914 and 1915.[2] While still a student, Jemne did commercial art, which she found "stupid, uncongenial, & maddening in its monotony."[3]
Life
Elsa Jemne became an advocate for art and culture in her home state of Minnesota in the early 20th century during the Great Depression. Not interested in commercial art employment, she traveled by bus throughout what is known as "the Iron Range of Northern Minnesota," painting murals depicting locally and regionally important themes.[3] Jemne was married to architect Magnus Jemne with whom she sometimes collaborated. One of their collaborations was the Art Moderne style Saint Paul Women's City Club.[4] Elsa Laubach Jemne died in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1974.
Work
- Her works for the Federal Art Project include murals in:
- Hutchinson, Minnesota post office titled The Hutchinson Singers, completed in 1942, egg tempera on plaster
- Ely, Minnesota post office, 2 tempera on plaster murals titled Iron-Ore Mines and Wilderness
- Ladysmith, Wisconsin post office, tempera on plaster mural titled Development of the Land, completed in 1938 and painted over
- Lake Geneva, Wisconsin post office, oil on canvas mural titled Winter Landscape, completed in 1940
- the Stearns County Courthouse in St. Cloud, Minnesota
- the Minneapolis Armory, headquarters for Minnesota National Guard, where she painted alongside another Minnesotan, Lucia Wiley[5][6][1]
- Central High School, Minneapolis
- Leamy House, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Nurses Home, St. Luke’s Hospital
- Northern Shores Power Company building
- Saint Paul Women's City Club, St. Paul, murals and terrazzo floors
- Community House, Brandon, Minnesota[7]
- She illustrated a number of books:
- Rudi Finds a Way written by Yolanda Foldes [8]
- A Norwegian family written by Marie Hamsun and translated by Maida Castelhun Darnton [9]
- A Norwegian Farm by Marie Hamsun ; abridged and translated by Maida Castelhun Darnton [10]
- We of Frabo Stand by Loring MacKaye [11]
References
- 1 2 McGlauflin, ed., ‘’Who’s Who in American Art 1938–1939” vol.2, The American Federation of Arts, Washington D.C., 1937
- ↑ Conforti, Michael (1994). Minnesota 1900: Art and Life on the Upper Mississippi, 1890-1915. Delaware: University of Delaware Press.
- 1 2 Holden, Robert. "Rambling Around the Red Rose Girls". paintinglifestories.blog. Painting life stories/Images. Retrieved 24 August 2016.
- ↑ "St. Paul Women's City Club". National Register of Historic Places. Retrieved 26 March 2018.
- ↑ Federal Writers of the WPA (1947). Minnesota: A State Guide (Second ed.). Hastings House. ISBN 0403021731.
- ↑ "Elsa Jemne". mmaa.org. Retrieved 2016-04-28.
- ↑ Opitz, Glenn B, Editor, Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers, Apollo Book, Poughkeepsie NY, 1986
- ↑ Foldes, Yolanda (1941). Rudi finds a way. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co. Retrieved 26 March 2018.
- ↑ Hamsun, Marie (1934). A Norwegian Family. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co. Retrieved 26 March 2018.
- ↑ Hamsun, Marie (1933). A Norwegian Farm. Chicago: E.M. Hale.
- ↑ MacKaye, Loring (1944). We of Frabo stand (1 ed.). New York: Longmans, Green. p. 42. Retrieved 26 March 2018.
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