Marie Bruner Haines Explained

Marie Bruner Haines (November 16, 1885 – 1979) was an American painter, illustrator, muralist, craftsman, lecturer and teacher.^[1]

Biography

Marie Bruner Haines was born on November 16, 1885, in Cincinnati, Ohio, to Charles Henry Haines and Olive C. Bruner.^[2]

Haines studied art at the Art Academy of Cincinnati from 1900 to 1901, at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, in Philadelphia from 1904 to 1905. She moved to Atlanta, Georgia before returning to studies in 1915 in New York at the Art Students League with Noble Volk, Francis Coates Jones, Frank DuMond, and Dimitri Romanofsky.^[3]

She was a member of the Southern States Art League and the Texas Fine Arts Association. She was based in College Station, Texas for many years.

Haines died in 1979 in Bennington, Vermont.^[4]

Selected works

• Murals, Cushing Library, Texas A&M^[5]
• Gesso panels, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, New Mexico^[5]
• Theater decorations, Bryan, Texas^[5]

Notes and References

1. Opitz, Glenn B, Editor, Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers, Apollo Book, Poughkeepsie NY, 1986 p. 361
2. Web site: Burt, Marie Bruner Haines. bennington.pastperfectonline.com. 2019-01-04.
3. Opitz, Glenn B, Editor, Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers, Apollo Book, Poughkeepsie NY, 1986, p. 361
4. Book: Blackman, Lynne. Central to Their Lives: Southern Women Artists in the Johnson Collection. 2018-06-20. Univ of South Carolina Press. 9781611179552. en.
5. McGlauflin, Alice Coe, ed., ‘’Who’s Who in American Art 1938-1939” vol.2, The American Federation of Arts, Washington D.C., 1937, p.225