Elizabeth Boardman Warren St. Augustine Florida Scene Etching Signed, "The Old Llambias House", 5 x 6 3/4" Image size, 11 3/4 x 14 3/4" framed.
Trained as an illustrator, Elizabeth Warren did illustrations for about 15 children's books and for magazines. She became a noted watercolorist, especially views of New England and Florida, and in the late 1930s, she began painting pastel portraits of children in rather sentimental style. She also did etchings including ones of structures in St. Augustine, Florida such as The Old Fatio House and The Prince Murat House. Because she was active at a time when women artists were not as respected as professionals as men, she signed her work "E.B. Warren" to disguise the fact she was female.Warren was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut and graduated from the Massachusetts Normal School of Art in Boston. She then worked as a free lance illustrator until 1924, when she went to England to study watercolor and drypoint etching. Returning to the United States, she studied at the Vesper George School of Art and began regular visits to Provincetown, where she studied etching with W.H.W. Bicknell. However, she was most interested in watercolor, and during this time did many New England coastal scenes.In Provincetown, she met and married Tod Lindenmuth, painter and graphic artist. The couple had two children. They were both very active in the Provincetown art community including the Art Association, and they maintained a summer studio and gallery from where they sold their etchings, woodblock prints and paintings. In 1934, they first visited St. Augustine, Florida where they established a winter studio in the Fatio House on Aviles Street and became active, respected members of that arts community. In 1940, the couple moved permanently to St. Augustine. "They never owned a car, and sought subjects on long walks around St. Augustine." (83) Although her husband did not enjoy traveling, she took painting trips including to Haiti, Mexico, Nova Scotia and Spain. In St. Augustine, she studied watercolor with Eliot O'Hara. Among her watercolors are Fishing at the Fort, St. Augustine. She also illustrated a popular book, St. Augustine Cookery: A Collecton of Recipes Handed Down by Spanish, French, English and American Settlers of the Nation's Oldest City.In 1940, the Lindenmuths moved their summer studio from Provincetown to Rockport, Massachusetts, and became regular exhibitors of the Rockport Artist Association. For the remainder of their painting careers, they divided their time seasonally between Rockport and St. Augustine. In 1968, they retired to Jacksonville, Florida, living in Wesley Manor (Westminster Woods) on Julington Creek. Tod Lindenmuth died in Jacksonville in 1976 at age 91, and she lived four years longer.

12 x 14 x 1 in

10 lb