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Ad Code: 4
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from Auction House Records.
Cloudbank of angel babies floating through a forest
Artwork images are copyright of the artist or assignee
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Biography from Martin-Zambito Fine Art:
|  Elizabethe Colborne was born in Chamberlain, South Dakota and there at the age of five began her art studies. Her father was a civil engineer who made skillful mechanical drawings and imparted his love of art to his daughter at an early age.
On the death of her parents, she went to live with an aunt in Bellingham, WA. After finishing high school there in 1903, she attended Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, N.Y. where she studied for three years. During this time, she also had special training in landscape painting with Rockwell Kent at Monhegan Island, Maine, with Robert Henri and studied block-printing methods with Allen Lewis and etching with Charles Mielatz at the Art Students League.
She temporarily returned to Bellingham but left after a few years to resume a career in New York City. She had previously been employed in New York doing cover designs, end papers and decorative pages for books. Eventually, most of her work was concentrated on illustrating children’s books and she produced her own series called the "Do Something Books". While working during the day, she studied at the National Academy of Design, taking etching classes from William Meyerowitz.
She eventually returned to the Northwest and began producing color wood-cuts for which she received national recognition. These works focused on Washington States' unique vegetation and atmospheric conditions. She produced a number of these color prints during her activity on the Washington State Public Works of Art Project.
Colborne also worked in watercolor and gouache and revived a lost photo-etching technique called "Sun Etchings" which she used to produce greeting and holiday cards that she sold nationally.
During WWII, she worked as a technical illustrator for Boeing.
David F. Martin
Martin-Zambito Fine Art
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