1930s - 1940s
Jane attended the Memphis Academy of Art from 1924 to 1937. Her work during the Depression exhibited the influence of WPA-era American Regionalism. She married in 1938, and moved with her husband to Mississippi. WWII brought them and their two children to the West Coast, where they eventually settled in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Art School, early 1930s, oil on canvas, 36” x 30”
Young Women in Red, early 1930s, oil on canvas, 18 1/2” x 16 3/4”, Collection of Darlene K. Chan
Miss Bosworth, late 1930s, oil on canvas, 36” x 30”, Collection of Peggy Bosworth Johnson
Still Life with Magazines, 1940, oil on canvas, 25” x 28 3/4”, Collection of Dan E. Campbell
WWII Stateside, early 1940s, oil on canvas, 30” x 36”
View from My Window, early 1940s, oil on canvas board, 16” x 20”
Spring in Mississippi, 1946, watercolor on paper, 16” x 23”
1950s - 1960s
With the birth of a third child in 1956, and limited workspace, Jane did little more than watercolors in the 1950s. But in the early 1960s, she started classes again and embraced abstraction with vigor, undaunted by a diagnosis of melanoma and the removal of an eye. By the late 1960s, her painting even flirted with Pop.
Untitled, 1963, oil on canvas, 28” x 20”
Untitled, 1965, oil on canvas, 30” x 25”
Untitled, 1965, oil on canvas, 24 3/4” x 21”
Untitled, 1969, oil on canvas, 28” x 38”
Untitled, 1969, oil on canvas, 29” x 26”
Untitled, late 1960s, oil on masonite, 10” x 7 1/2”
Shadows & Fire, 1969, oil on canvas, 19” x 15 1/4”
Untitled, 1960s, oil on canvas, 8” 16”
Untitled, 1960s, oil on masonite, 12” x 9”
Untitled, 1969, oil on canvas, 8 1/2” x 11”
UFO, late 1960s, acrylic on canvas, 33 7/8” x 29 1/2”
Lament, 1969/70, acrylic on canvas, 36 3/4” x 32 1/2”
1970s - 1980s
In the 1970s, the figure returned repeatedly to Jane’s work. After she and her husband moved to Salinas in 1976, her production slowed down, and in 1980, her cancer returned. Now working exclusively in acrylic, she became fascinated with the smears of paint she could peel from her palette, and began making collages with these “peelings”.
Untitled, 1974, acrylic on canvas, 40” x 50”
Follow the Yellow Brick Road, early 1970s, acrylic on canvas, 36” x 48”
Untitled, 1974, acrylic on canvas, 37 1/2” x 49 1/4”
Untitled, 1973, acrylic on canvas, 53” x 42 1/2”
Japanese Tea Garden, early 1970s, acrylic on canvas, 32” x 52”
Rosetta, early 1970s, acrylic on canvas, 30” x 22”
Untitled, early 1970s, acrylic on canvas, 50 1/2” x 40 1/2”
Untitled, late 1970s, acrylic on canvas, 36'“ x 30”
Untitled, early 1980s, acrylic “peelings” collage on canvas, 19” x 16”
Carnival, 1976, acrylic “peelings” collage on canvas, 28” x 21”