This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  Born in Albert Lea, Minnesota, J Vennerstrom Cannon became a painter,
lithographer and writer of articles to newspapers about art. She
was especially known for her paintings of the Arizona landscape.
She
grew up in Battle Lake, Minnesota. Both her mother and step
mother died when she was young, which caused her to drop out of school
at the age of nine and enter again at age 17. By 1888, she was a
teacher in her home-town area.
Later she studied at Hamline
University in St. Paul, 1891-1895, and in 1897, attended Stanford
University in Palo Alto, California where her art teacher was Bolton
Brown from whom she received her first formal art training.
In
1898, she married William Austin Cannon, who was also a Stanford
student, and they moved to New York where she enrolled at the National
Academy of Art and the New York School of Art under William Merritt
Chase. Her husband earned a PhD from Columbia University.
In
1905, she and her husband relocated, this time moving to Tucson,
Arizona where she stayed primarily for some time except for trips to
London (1910-1911) and New York (1917-1918). Until 1913, she
stayed in Carmel during the summers. In 1918, she moved to Berkeley,
California, and remained there until 1948 when she went back to Tucson.
Her
exposure to the Arizona desert launched her serious career as an
artist, and she did many paintings of the desert and mountains as well
as the Grand Canyon, historic missions, and native Indians. She
also painted in New Mexico and along the California coast, especially
at Carmel and La Jolla. Among her titles are In Old Tucson, Taos Indian Pueblo, Carmel Mission, and Along the Apache Trail.
In addition, Cannon painted still lifes and city scenes of New
York and San Francisco, and she exhibited widely including the Carmel
Art Association, the San Francisco Art Association, and with the
National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors.
She was also art editor of the Berkeley Gazette in the 1920s, and lectured on art. Her autobiography of her early life is titled Watershed Drama, Battle Lake, Minnesota.
Her
work is in the John Vanderpoel Art Association of Chicago and the Otter
Tail County Historical Society Museum in Battle Lake.
Source:
An Encyclopedia of Women Artists of the American West by Phil Kovinick and Marian Yoshiki-Kovinick | |
This biography from the Archives of AskART:
| Born in Albert Lea, MN on Aug. 31, 1869, Jennie Vennerström studied with Bolton Brown at Stanford University followed by work at the National Academy of Design, William Merritt Chase School, Hamline University, and the London School of Art.
A resident of New York City in the 1890s, she moved to northern California in 1898 and married Wm A. Cannon in Pacific Grove.
She was a co-founder of the Laguna Beach Art Association (1918) and Carmel Art Association (1927). While active in Berkeley, Carmel, and Palo Alto during the 1920s and 1930s, she contributed articles on art to newspapers and was the author of Watershed Drama (1942).
Her last years were spent in Tucson, AZ; she died there on Dec. 12, 1952.
Memberships:
Berkeley League of Fine Arts; San Francisco Women Artists; Oakland Art Association; Gallerie Beaux Arts (San Francisco).
Exhibitions:
Panama Pacific, 1915; San Francisco Art Association, 1916-25; Museum of New Mexico, 1922 (solo); Laguna Beach Art Association, 1924; Freelance Art League (LA), 1924; Southern California Artists, San Diego FA Gallery, 1927; Oakland Art Gallery, 1928; East West Gallery, 1929 (solo); League of American Pen Women, 1934; Golden Gate International Exposition, 1939. | Source:
Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940"
California State Library (Sacramento); American Art Annual 1917-33; Art Digest, Dec. 1929; Artists of the American West (Doris Dawdy); Women Artists of the American West; Who's Who in American Art 1936-53; Berkeley Daily Gazette, 12-13-1952 (obituary). | | 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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Jennie Cannon is also mentioned in these AskART essays:
San Francisco Panama-Pacific Exhibition 1915
Taos Pre 1940
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