This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  Born in Racine, Wisconsin, Elizabeth Jaynes (often misspelled as Janes) Putnam Borglum became a painter
early in her career of still lifes, especially grapes, and of portraits
and animals. However, in the early 1900s, she turned increasingly to landscape painting, especially
views of Southern California including San Juan Capistrano, which has
one of her paintings in the collection. She also painted in
Monterey and Santa Barbara.
Her parents were Isaac and Julia Nelson (Collins) Jaynes. Elizabeth Borglum first took her art training in Boston and then
studied music in New York City at Miss Graham's School. She began
her art studies at the school in 1875 with teacher Charles W. Knudsen.
She then returned to Wisconsin where she taught
music near Milwaukee. In 1884, she moved to Los Angeles,
California, and the next year began art study with William Keith.
There she met Gutzon Borglum, who
was also a student of Keith's and who ultimately become famous for his
portrait stone carvings on Mount Rushmore. The couple married in
Los Angeles in 1889, and for the next ten years she and her husband
traveled widely in Europe. In London, she studied with California
painter Emil Carlsen.
In Paris, she studied with Felix Hildago. The couple also
purchased a home, "El Rosario", in Sierra Madre, California in
1893, and she occupied this residence during and after she and Borglum separated in 1903 and divorced in 1908.
She continued her art career in the Los Angeles area, painting and
teaching and taking classes from J. Foxcroft Cole. In 1915, she moved to Venice, California.
Among her paintings are Rain Storm on Sierra Madre Mountains; Sycamore Mountains, and Poplar Drive in Baldwin Ranch.
Exhibition
venues included the Western Art Association, Alaska-Yukon-Pacific
Exposition in Seattle, San Francisco Art Association and the Southern
California-Panama Exposition in San Diego.
Sources include:
Phil Kovinick, Marian Yoshiki Kovinick, An Encyclopedia of Women Artists of the American West
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  Born in Racine, WI on Dec. 21, 1848. Elizabeth Jaynes studied art and music in Boston, NYC, and Paris. Her marriage to J. W. Putnam ended in divorce. While in Milwaulkee she taught music before moving to San Francisco in 1881. She continued her art studies there with Wm Keith and at the School of Design under Virgil Williams and L. P. Latimer. Moving to Los Angeles in 1884, she was a leader in the small art community. In 1889 she married John Gutzon Borglum who was her pupil and 19 years younger. The Borglums then spent the next ten years studying and exhibiting in Europe. Due to marital problems she returned to southern California in 1902. Settling in Sierra Madre, she painted and taught at her studio "El Rosario." Divorced in 1908, Mrs. Borglum was active there until her death in Venice, CA on May 21, 1922. Her work is rooted in the Tonalist-Barbizon esthetic.
| Source:
Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940"
American Art Annual 1919; Women Artists of the American West; Southern California Artists (Nancy Moure); Keith, Old Master of California (Brother Cornelius); Give the Man Room; Death record. | | Nearly 20,000 biographies can be found in Artists in California 1786-1940 by Edan Hughes and is available for sale ($150). For a full book description and order information please click here. |
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Elizabeth Borglum is also mentioned in these AskART essays:
San Francisco Panama-Pacific Exhibition 1915
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