Elsa Jemne

Elsa Laubach Jemne (1888-1947 ) is an American painter and illustrator born in St. Paul, Minnesota. She attended the St. Paul Institute before continuing her art studies at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.

She 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.

Jemne died in St. Paul in 1974.

Work

• Her works for the Federal Art Project includes murals in the
  • Hutchinson, Minnesota Post Office
  • the Stearns County Courthouse in St. Cloud, Minnesota
  • the Minneapolis Armory.^[2][3]
• Central High School, Minneapolis, murals
• Leamy House, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Nurses Home, St. Luke’s Hospital
• Northern Shores Power Company building
• Women’s City Club, St. Paul, murals and terrazzo floors
• Community House, Brandon, Minnesota, murals^[4]

References

1. McGlauflin, ed., ‘’Who’s Who in American Art 1938-1939” vol.2, The American Federation of Arts, Washington D.C., 1937
2. "Elsa Jemne". mmaa.org. Retrieved 2016-04-28.
3. McGlauflin, ed., ‘’Who’s Who in American Art 1938-1939” vol.2, The American Federation of Arts, Washington D.C., 1937
4. Opitz, Glenn B, Editor, Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers, Apollo Book, Poughkeepsie NY, 1986