M. Jean McLane explained

M. Jean McLane
Birth Name:Myrtle Jean McLane
Birth Date:14 September 1878
Birth Place:Chicago, Illinois
Death Place:Stamford, Connecticut
Nationality:American
Education:School of the Art Institute of Chicago and other places in the U.S. and Europe
Known For:Portraits
Spouse:John Christen Johansen
Children:Margaret, John

M. Jean McLane (also known as Jean Johansen) (September 14, 1878 – January 23, 1964), was an American portraitist. Her works were exhibited and won awards in the United States and in Europe. She made portrait paintings of women and children. McLane also made portrait paintings of a Greek and Australian Premiers and Elisabeth, Queen of the Belgians.

Personal life

Myrtle Jean McLane was born in Chicago, Illinois on September 14, 1878.[1]

While a student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago she met John Christen Johansen and later became his wife. She then had a studio and lived in New York.[2] They had a son John and daughter Margaret. The family spent their summers at Weyborne Hill in Stockbridge, Massachusetts and sometimes traveled to Europe. Their winters were spent in Greenwich Village.[3]

She died in Stamford, Connecticut; Her residence at the time was in New Canaan, Connecticut.

Education

She first studied with John Vanderpoel at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago[4] and later in Cincinnati under Frank Duveneck and in New York City under William M. Chase.

McLane also studied in Italy, Spain and France.[5]

Career

Johansen and McLane helped to found the in 1912. Asked by a group of philanthropists to help depict the Allied Leaders from World War I[6] she provided the only female subject, Queen Elisabeth of the Belgians,[7] This painting today is exhibited in the National Museum of American Art.[8]

In 1912, she was elected an associate to the National Academy of Design and a full academician in 1926. She was a member of the National Society of Portrait Painters.

Her Portrait of Virginia and Stanton Arnold (Brother and Sister) was awarded the 1913 Third Hallgarten Prize at the National Academy of Design,[9] and also won the 1914 Lippincott Prize at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts as the best figurative piece by an American artist in oil.[10] Her painting "Portrait Mrs. Edmund D. Libby" was included in the Fourth Annual Exhibition of Selected Paintings by American Artists[11] and "The Baby" was included in the Fifth Annual Exhibition of Selected Paintings by American Artists held at the Detroit Museum of Art April 16 to May 31, 1919.[12]

She made portraits of Elisabeth, Queen of the Belgians, Premier Hughes of Australia, and Premier Eleftherios Venizelos.[13] She and her husband were among artists who were commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery committee to create portraits of World War I soldiers and statesmen. Another woman artist was Cecilia Beaux. The exhibition of 20 portraits, including Johansen's Signing the Peace Treaty, June 28, 1919, circulated among American cities.[14]

Her works are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art[15] and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.[16] Her work was also part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1932 Summer Olympics.[17]

Awards

She received the following awards:

Works

Some of McLane's works are:

Further reading

Notes and References

  1. Book: City Art Museum of St. Louis . Special Exhibition Catalogue . 1914 . 53.
  2. Book: Art and Progress . American Federation of Arts . 1912 . 612.
  3. Web site: December 21, 2000 . In Memoriam: Margaret Johansen Worthington . August 27, 2014 . iBerkshires.
  4. Web site: Paintings by John C. Johansen and M. Jean McLane January 3 to 23, 1911 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120309151151/http://www.artic.edu/aic/libraries/pubs/1911/AIC1911JohansenMcLane_comb.pdf . May 24, 2009. March 9, 2012 .
  5. Book: Arthur Hoeber . Famous American Women Painters . Mentor association . 1914 . 20.
  6. Book: The American Magazine of Art . March 18, 2024 . American Federation of Arts . 10 . 395.
  7. Book: The Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art . 1921 . New York, NY . 4.
  8. Book: Report on the National Gallery of Art, Including the Freer Gallery of Art . National Gallery of Art (U.S.) . 1921.
  9. Book: The Exhibition Record of the National Academy of Design, 1901 - 1950 . Sound View Press . 1990 . Falk . Peter Hastings . Madison, CT . 339.
  10. Book: American Art Directory . R.R. Bowker Company . 1914 . American Federation of Arts.
  11. Book: Catalogue of the Fourth Annual Exhibition of Selected Paintings by American Artists. https://web.archive.org/web/20060818155111/http://www.dalnet.lib.mi.us/greenstone/dia/dmaExhibitions/1918-4.pdf . August 18, 2006 .
  12. Book: Catalogue of the Fifth Annual Exhibition of Selected Paintings by American Artists. https://web.archive.org/web/20060818070505/http://www.dalnet.lib.mi.us/greenstone/dia/dmaExhibitions/1919-7.pdf . August 18, 2006 .
  13. Book: The Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art . The Museum . 1921 . 3.
  14. Book: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston . Boston Museum Bulletin . Museum of Fine Arts. . 1918 . 46.
  15. Web site: Elizabeth Buehrmann, by M. Jean McLane . August 27, 2014 . Metropolitan Museum of Art.
  16. Web site: M. Jean McLane . August 27, 2014 . Smithsonian American Art Museum.
  17. Web site: M. Jean McLane . 2 August 2020 . Olympedia.
  18. Book: Art Institute of Chicago . Paintings by John C. Johansen and M. Jean McLane: January 3 to 22, 1911 . John Christen Johansen . Jean MacLane . Art Institute of Chicago . 1911.
  19. Book: Frank Moore Colby . The New international encyclopaedia . Talcott Williams . Irwin Scofield Guernsey . Dodd, Mead and company . 1922 . 713.
  20. Web site: Search: Jean McLane . August 27, 2014 . Smithsonian Institution Collections Search Center.
  21. Web site: 2019-04-24 . The Feathered Hat by M. Jran McLane . artofnashville.com . Art of the Week. https://web.archive.org/web/20200924041912/https://artofnashville.com/2019/04/24/the-feathered-hat-by-jean-maclane/ . September 24, 2020 .

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