Elizabeth Aline COLBORNE

• Birth: 15 Feb 1885, Chamberlain, Brule, South Dakota
• Death: 21 Feb 1948, Seattle, King, Washington

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                          |_Martha WHEELER _|
                                            |                    _Samuel JOHNSON Sr.__
                                            |_Lucretia JOHNSON _|_Lidia or Mercy _____

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Name: Elizabeth Colborne Place of Death: Seattle Date of Death: 21 Feb 1948 Age: 63 Gender: F Certificate: 2412 _________________________ 817058 Colborne, Elizabeth Dictionary of Women Artists. An international dictionary of womenartists born before 1900. B y Chris Petteys. Boston: G.K. Hall & Co.,1985.(DcWomA)Who Was Who in American Art. Compile d from the original thirty-fourvolumes of [American Art Annual: Who's Who in Art, Biographie s ofAmerican Artists Active from 1898-1947.]. Edited by Peter HastingsFalk. Madison, CT: So und View Press, 1985.(WhAmArt) 817059 Colborne, Elizabeth A Childhood in Poetry. A catalogue, with biographical and criticalannotations, of the books o f English and American poets comprisingthe Shaw Childhood in Poetry Collection in the Librar y of theFlorida State University. First edition. By John Mackay Shaw.Detroit: Gale Research , 1967.(ChhPo) _____________________ 1885 Dakota Territorial Census Name: Hiram Bowen Race: W Age: 70 Birth Place: Mass Enumeration District: 133 1/2 Locatio n: Town 100, Range 59, Hutchinson, Ty Dak Name: Martha Bowen Race: W Age: 64 Birth Place: Ohio Enumeration District: 133 1/2 Locat ion: Town 100, Range 59, Hutchinson, Ty Dak Name: Marvin Bowen Race: W Age: 25 Birth Place: Wis Enumeration District: 133 1/2 Locatio n: Town 100, Range 59, Hutchinson, Ty Dak Name: Ellen F. Colborne Race: W Age: 35 Birth Place: Wis Enumeration District: 133 1/2 Lo cation: Town 100, Range 59, Hutchinson, Ty Dak Name: Emma Gray Race: W Age: 20 Birth Place: NY Enumeration District: 133 1/2 Location: T own 100, Range 59, Hutchinson, Ty Dak Name: Belle Colborne Race: W Age: 2 Birth Place: Dak Enumeration District: 133 1/2 Locati on: Town 100, Range 59, Hutchinson, Ty Dak Name: Bessie A. Colborne Race: W Age: 4/12 Birth Place: Dak Enumeration District: 133 1/ 2 Location: Town 100, Range 59, Hutchinson, Ty Dak _____________________________ Elizabeth Colborne. A noted New York artist, member of the NAWP, the American Watercolor Soci ety and a student of Robert Henri. ____________________ 817058 Colborne, Elizabeth Dictionary of Women Artists. An international dictionary of womenartists born before 1900. B y Chris Petteys. Boston: G.K. Hall & Co.,1985.(DcWomA)Who Was Who in American Art. Compile d from the original thirty-fourvolumes of [American Art Annual: Who's Who in Art, Biographie s ofAmerican Artists Active from 1898-1947.]. Edited by Peter HastingsFalk. Madison, CT: So und View Press, 1985.(WhAmArt) 817059 Colborne, Elizabeth A Childhood in Poetry. A catalogue, with biographical and criticalannotations, of the books o f English and American poets comprisingthe Shaw Childhood in Poetry Collection in the Librar y of theFlorida State University. First edition. By John Mackay Shaw.Detroit: Gale Research , 1967.(ChhPo) _____________________ 1885 Dakota Territorial Census Name: Hiram Bowen Race: W Age: 70 Birth Place: Mass Enumeration District: 133 1/2 Locatio n: Town 100, Range 59, Hutchinson, Ty Dak Name: Martha Bowen Race: W Age: 64 Birth Place: Ohio Enumeration District: 133 1/2 Locat ion: Town 100, Range 59, Hutchinson, Ty Dak Name: Marvin Bowen Race: W Age: 25 Birth Place: Wis Enumeration District: 133 1/2 Locatio n: Town 100, Range 59, Hutchinson, Ty Dak Name: Ellen F. Colborne Race: W Age: 35 Birth Place: Wis Enumeration District: 133 1/2 Lo cation: Town 100, Range 59, Hutchinson, Ty Dak Name: Emma Gray Race: W Age: 20 Birth Place: NY Enumeration District: 133 1/2 Location: T own 100, Range 59, Hutchinson, Ty Dak Name: Belle Colborne Race: W Age: 2 Birth Place: Dak Enumeration District: 133 1/2 Locati on: Town 100, Range 59, Hutchinson, Ty Dak Name: Bessie A. Colborne Race: W Age: 4/12 Birth Place: Dak Enumeration District: 133 1/ 2 Location: Town 100, Range 59, Hutchinson, Ty Dak _____________________________ Elizabeth Colborne. A noted New York artist, member of the NAWP, the American Watercolor Soci ety and a student of Robert Henri. _____________________________ Obituary for Miss Elizabeth Colborne Born: 15 Feb 1885 in So. Dakota The daughter of Birney B. Colborne & Ellen ÙSEllaÙT Frances Bowen Lineage to Alexander & Elizabeth (Bartholomew) Harper Ellen ÙSEllaÙT Frances Bowen is the dau of Hiram Bowen & Martha Wheeler Martha Wheeler is the dau of Samuel Wheeler & Lucretia Johnson Samuel Wheeler is the son of Hon. Aaron Wheeler & Margaret Harper Margaret Harper is the dau of Alexander Harper & Elizabeth Bartholomew _________________________________ Bellingham (Washington) Herald February 24, 1948 Pg. 14, Col. 2 Transcribed from microfilm copy of newspaper At Simi Valley, CA Jan 20, 2004 Miss Colborne Passes at Seattle Elizabeth Colborne, Bellingham artist and illustrator whose work was acclaimed by art critic s throughout the country, died Saturday at her home in Seattle, where she had lived for the p ast ten years. Born in Beloit, Wisconsin, Miss Colborne came to Bellingham, then Whatcom, as a young girl an d made her home here with her aunt, the late Mrs. T. R. Kershaw. After attending grade schoo l and high school, she studied art in the East, and later taught art classes at the Bellingha m Normal School. A resident of New York for many years, she maintained a studio there, exhib iting her paintings in New York and other art centers. In commercial work her forte was illu strating childrenÙus books and Christmas cards. In 1939 she sponsored an art exhibit in the A rgent galleries. Characteristic of Miss ColborneÙus work was a quality distinctly Northwestern in feeling, an d this found a passion in typical Pacific Northwest scenes, many of them Bellingham inspired . Art critics agreed that it was in intimate studies of wood-cut scenes that Miss ColborneÙu s originality and interpretation were most evident. One of her best known works was ÙSOld Lo g Deep in Ferns and Moss.ÙT TAUGHT ART HERE After returning to Bellingham from New York, Miss Colborne taught art classes for young peopl e at her home near Whatcom Falls and later at her home near the foot of Schome hill. In 193 9 Western Washington college staged an exhibit of her water colors and block prints featurin g such titles as ÙSFishermenÙus Boats at Squalicum Fill,ÙT ÙSLarson Mill BurnerÙT and ÙSLumber Mill s, Bellingham Bay.ÙT When World War II broke out Miss Colborne joined the staff of Boeing Airplane Company in Seat tle, and was employed there for six years, or until the time of her death. ______________________________ Additional info on Elizabeth Colborne from a notation dated Feb. 24, 1948 among the papers i n possession of Martin-Zambito Art Studio in Seattle, received at Simi Valley, California Jan uary 20, 2004. ÙSBorn in Chamberlain, South Dakota, Elizabeth Colborne came to Bellingham at the age of twelv e and finished her education in the Bellingham public schools. After completing a three year art course at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, she had special land scape training with Rockwell Kent at Monhegan Island, Maine, and studied blockprinting unde r Allen Lewis and etching under C. W. Mielatz at the Art StudentsÙu League in New York City. At the time of the war, Miss Colborne gave up her work if illustrating childrenÙus books an d joined a detatchment of the Land Army on Long Island, where she had many interesting experi ences. Miss Colborne finds that people in the east are very much interested in her northwest fores t scenes. Now, after five years of work in Bellingham, she is taking a group of her characte ristic water colors and block prints to New York City for exhibit.ÙT ________________________________________________________________________ The following is a copy of a letter received from Mrs. Hamilton, December 1950 and date-stamp ed as ÙSfiledÙT at the Bellingham Public Library Sept 15, 1954. This ÙSMrs. HamiltonÙT is Belle E velyn Colborne Hamilton - sister to Elizabeth Colborne. ELIZABETH ALINE COLBORNE Elizabeth Aline Colborne was born in Chamberlain, South Dakota, and there at the age of fiv e began her art studies. Her father, a civil engineer who made fine mechanical drawings, wis hed his daughter to be an artist and started her training early. On the death of her parents she went to live with her aunt, Mrs. T. R. Kershaw in Bellingham . After finishing high school there in 1903 she went to Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, N.Y., w here she studied art for three years. After graduating she obtained a position with the Decorative Designers of New York City, doi ng cover designs, end papers, and decorative pages for books. Later after teaching art in Bellingham for a few years she returned to New York and establis hed her own studio, working for various publications. Eventually most of her work was for Pl att & Monk, publishers of childrenÙus books. She illustrated and also invented the ÙSDo Someth ing BooksÙT for children. She worked continuously and studied evenings, taking etching lessons from Mr. Meyeowitz at t he National Academy. Thru her reading and study in the Art Reference Room of the New York Pu blic Library she discovered the method of sun-etchings which she used so successfully in maki ng Christmas cards that were sold for many years at the Arts and Crafts in Boston, and Geor g Jensens on Fifth Ave. in New York. It is quite an exacting process and is probably a lost art again. (I should like to say here that IÙRÙR..the remainder of this page runs off the copy I received. )

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