Jean McLane

American, 1878 - 1964

Overview

McLane and her husband were amongst the founders of the National Foundation of Portrait Painters. Her portraits live on as cherished time capsules to a long passed era of gentility. She went of to paint dynamic figurative works of size that display complexity and avant-garde color use. She and her husband spent their late years in New Canaan, Connecticut. They had heirs and the estate of the Jean McLane was divided and many of the works retained by the family.