This biography from the Archives of AskART:
| The following is from Elain Delouch, great niece of the artist:
Earl Lage Ehrenborg was born in 1906 and died in 1966. He was the youngest son of Nils Peter Ehrenborg and his wife, Gerda, who emigrated to the United States from Sweden with their first born son, Eric, in 1899. Earl also had an older sister, Greta, and an older brother, Carl.
The family settled in the Boston area and spent many years residing in the towns of Melrose, Malden and Wakefield Massachusetts. Nils was a journeyman and master craftsman. He earned his living as a master painter in the decorative arts often specializing in the restoration or reproduction of Chinese art, carvings and wallpaper. Earl and Carl joined him in that business and they spent time in Williamsburg, Virginia in 1933 working on the restoration of the Capitol Building and Governor"s Palace.
Like his father, Earl painted during leisure time. Some of his landscapes hung in the family homes around Melrose, Wakefield and Malden Massachusetts. In 1933, Earl's older brother Eric bought a farm in West Buxton, Maine that became the entire family"s summer vacation destination. Wives and children would spend the summer on the farm with the men arriving on weekends.
Earl sometimes went by the nickname of "Wimpy," taken from the character of that name in the Popeye cartoon series. It is not known if the name was
acquired due to the physical resemblance between the two or a love of
hamburgers!
Earl married Enid Simonds in 1933 and they adopted a daughter, Claire, in 1944. Earl died in 1966 of a heart attack. He is buried in Wyoming Cemetery in Melrose, Massachusetts. Enid now lives in a nursing home in Wakefield Massachusetts.
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