By Elsie Haddon Haynes
Located in Denver, CO
A view of the Rocky Mountains as seen from Shadow Valley Gardens, Wheat Ridge, Colorado. Presented in a custom frame, outer dimensions measure 19 ½ x 23 ½ x 1 inches. Image size is 9 x 11 ½ inches.
Provenance: Private Collection, Arizona
Elsie Haddon Haynes was born on the Isle of Wight, a small island on the Southern coast of England. Her father, a historian, was a professor at Cambridge. Elsie was raised in Wimbledon, and received formal training in art at the Herkomer Art School in Hertfordshire, England, during 1905 and 1906. She later studied in Brussels and Bruges before leaving Belgium to study in Paris between 1908 and 1909. She settled in Cambridge in 1911 where she worked as an artist.
During World War I, Elsie went to France where she volunteered with the YMCA, then active with programs that provided everything from basic services to entertainment to American troops on the front. It was during her service to the YMCA that she met William Haynes...
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Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Elsie Haddon Haynes Paintings