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| Edgar Alwyn Payne |
| 1882-1947 |
| American Artist |
| Payne was born in Washburn, MO and is best known as a landscape painter and muralist. He left home at age 14 and found work painting houses, stage sets, and signs. His travels took him through the Ozarks and into Mexico. Except for a brief period at the AIC, he remained a self-taught artist. On his first visit to California in 1909 he spent several months painting in Laguna Beach before visiting San Francisco. While in SF he met and later married Elsie Palmer in Chicago in 1912. In 1918 the Paynes established a studio home in Laguna Beach where he organzied and became the first president of the local art association. Payne is internationally famous for depicting Indians riding though desert canyons and of the Sierra Nevada. |
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