Known for her murals as a WPA artist during the Depression era,
Jessie Mayer was also a fine-art painter, active both in Indiana and her birth state of Connecticut. She
was married to Henrik Mayer (1908-1972), whom she had met when she was
a student at the Yale School of Fine Arts. Both were much
influenced by Eugene Savage, who was on the Yale faculty and was a highly
regarded muralist.
The couple married in 1932 shortly after Jessie received her Yale Fine
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