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Elanor Colburn (born Eleanor Gump) studied in her native Ohio and at the Art Institute of Chicago where she later taught art and exhibited locally.  She was twice married.  Upon separation from her second husband, Joseph Colburn, she moved, in the early 1920s, to Laguna Beach, where she painted until her death.  Her style was a loose post-Impressionism, and later a form of Dynamic Symmetry, which she utilized on mother/child themes with titles such as Primitive Mother or Pueblo Madonna.  In 1934 she was hired to paint a mural in a local school, SCN, March 23, 1934, p. 1, col. 6; painting 3-panel mural on life of Lincoln, SCN, April 13, 1934, p. 13, col. 4; “Background of Lincoln’s Youth” painted for local high school (three scenes divided by painted tree trunks), SCN, April 19, 1938, p. 9; mural “Background of Abe Lincoln’s Youth” given to Woodrow Wilson Jr. H. S. in San Diego, SCN, April 21, 1942, p. 2;

Provenance: purchased Laguna Beach Museum of Art auction, May 18, 1986, no. 20; given to Museum by artist; exhibitions and publications: exhibited Painting and Sculpture, Fifteenth Annual Exhibit, Los Angeles County Museum of History, Science and Art, May 4 – June 17, 1934, no. 21; Laguna Art Museum, Regionalism into Modernism, 1993.

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