Elanor Colburn
American painter (1866–1939)
Elanor Ruth Eaton Gump Colburn (née Eleanor Ruth Gump; 1866 – May 7, 1939), was an American painter. She was active in Chicago, and Laguna Beach, California.
Life and career
Eleanor Ruth Gump was born in 1866, in Dayton, Ohio. In 1927, she changed her name to "Elanor". She attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and was a student under William Merritt Chase and Frank Duveneck.
In the 1920s she spent time at Ogunquit Art Colony in Ogunquit, Maine. Colburn's painting Fishwives, was awarded the Leisser–Farnham Prize in 1930 from the San Diego Art Guild.
Her first marriage was to Charles Harry Eaton (1850–1901), a landscape painter. Their daughter was Ruth Eaton Peabody (1893–1966), a noted painter. Her second marriage was in 1898 to Joseph Elliott Colburn, an ophthalmologist, which ended in divorce by 1915.
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