Betty Lane Explained

Betty Lane
Birth Name:Elizabeth Thoburn Lane
Birth Date:30 September 1907
Birth Place:Washington, D.C.
Death Place:Brewster, Massachusetts
Nationality:American
Education:Corcoran College of Art and Design, Massachusetts Normal Art School
Known For:Painting
Movement:Modernism

Betty Lane (September 30, 1907  - 1996) was an American artist.

Lane's first exhibition was at the Phillips Memorial Gallery in 1931. Lane created figure subjects, portraits, and landscapes executed in watercolor and oil. Her work includes nature and street scenes in the Americas and Europe, domestic scenes, and grotesques.

Lane's work is included in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art,[1] [2] The Phillips Collection,[3] [4] the Provincetown Art Association and Museum,[5] and the Cape Cod Museum of Art.[6]

Life

Born in Washington, D.C., on 30 September 1907, Betty (born Elizabeth Thoburn) Lane was the youngest of six children born to a Marine officer, Rufus Herman Lane and Gertrude Eleanor Mills. Lane began painting in watercolor around age nine.[7] After high school Lane enrolled at the Corcoran College of Art and Design. Unhappy at Corcoran, she transferred to the Massachusetts Normal Art School.[8]

Career

In 1928 Lane traveled to Paris and studied with André Lhote. In 1929 Lane returned to the United States, living in Falls Church, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. It was during this period that Lane's work came to the attention of Duncan Phillips. In April 1931 Lane was part of an exhibition at the Phillips Memorial Gallery with John Marin and Harold Weston.[9]

Between 1930 and 1939 Lane lived in Cambridge, England, and Paris, France. From 1939 to 1946 Lane was living in Ontario, Canada.

In 1946 Lane moved to the United States, teaching at Miss Porter's School from 1952 until 1965. During this time Lane began making works in woodblock printing, silkscreen, ceramics, and glass.

After 1960 Lane lived in Brewster, Massachusetts, visiting Greece, Mexico, the Soviet Union, and Australia.[10] Lane died in Brewster, Massachusetts, in 1996.

In 1977, Lane became an associate of the Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press (WIFP).[11] WIFP is an American nonprofit publishing organization. The organization works to increase communication between women and connect the public with forms of women-based media.

Exhibitions

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Search "Betty Lane". metmuseum.org. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 22 March 2015.
  2. News: . Museum Buys Paintings: Metropolitan Gets Nine on View During National Art Week . The New York Times . November 25, 1941 . March 21, 2015.
  3. Web site: Betty Lane "St. Peter's Square". phillipscollection.org. The Phillips Collection. 22 March 2015.
  4. Web site: Betty Lane "Tam". phillipscollection.org. 22 March 2015.
  5. Web site: Provincetown Art Association and Museum. paam.org. Provincetown Art Association and Museum. 23 March 2015.
  6. Web site: Search the Collection. ccmoa.org. 22 March 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150402154928/http://www.ccmoa.org/ArtCollection.asp. 2 April 2015. dead.
  7. Book: Noxon . Nicolas . Finch . Robert . Noxon . Christopher . Hay . John . Holl . Harry . Betty Lane: Painting a Life . Dennis, MA . Cape Museum of Fine Arts . 1997.
  8. Web site: Lilienstein. Jaime. Seaman. JJ. Biography. sullivangoss.com . Sullivan Goss. 22 March 2015. 2011.
  9. News: Staff. Notes of Art and Artists. 23 April 2015. The Sunday Star. The Sunday Star. 12 April 1931.
  10. Web site: Noxon. Christopher. Remembering Betty Lane. christophernoxon.com. Christopher Noxon. 22 March 2015.
  11. Web site: Associates The Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press. www.wifp.org. en-US. 2017-06-21.
  12. Web site: Betty Lane: Vertical File. library.phillipscollection.org. Phillips Collection. 23 March 2015.
  13. Web site: April Exhibitions at the Phillips Memorial Gallery. Wikimedia Commons. The Phillips Collection. 23 April 2015.
  14. News: Staff. Current Exhibitions. 23 April 2015. The Washington Post. 5 April 1931.
  15. News: . Art Roster: Exhibitions Recently Opened Here . The New York Times . September 25, 1932 . March 21, 2015.
  16. News: Devere. Howard . January 16, 1944 . Current Exhibitions in Brief . The New York Times . March 21, 2015.
  17. Web site: Invitation to opening of exhibition of paintings by Betty Lane. Toronto, February 19, 1945.. Wikimedia Commons. 23 April 2015.
  18. News: . Paintings of Turf To Go On Display: 'Panorama of Racing History' by U.S. and British Artists Features Events in Art . The New York Times . April 19, 1948 . March 21, 2015.
  19. Web site: Betty Lane. juliehellergallery.com. Julie Heller Gallery. 23 March 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20151218180158/http://www.juliehellergallery.com/JHG/Betty_Lane.html. 18 December 2015. dead.
  20. Web site: Betty Lane: The Road Less Taken. sullivangoss.com/. Sullivan Goss. 22 March 2015.
  21. Web site: Betty Lane: A Certain Kind of Woman. youtube.com. SGTV. 22 March 2015.

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