Elsa Laubach Jemne was a Minnesota artist active from the 1910s to the 1960s. Though skilled as an easel painter, she is better known for the murals she created for public buildings, including post offices and courthouses. She was born Elsa Laubach on July 7, 1887, in St. Paul. While she was able to attend classes at the St. Paul School of Art beginning in 1910, financial circumstances forced her to work as a commercial artist—a job that she resented for its creative monotony. By 1912, she had saved enough money to go to Philadelphia to attend the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, one of most prestigious art schools in the country. ....Jemne is well known as a muralist. Her first major work came in 1922, at the Stearns County Courthouse. The Art Deco-styled mural shows two figures riding in an idyllic landscape and is meant to be an imagining of Minnesota before Europeans arrived. Beginning in the 1930s, Jemne was commissioned to paint several murals under the Treasury Department’s Section of Fine Arts. A mural called Wilderness, installed in the Ely post office, shows a scene of Minnesota... (http://www.mnopedia.org/person/jemne-elsa-laubach-1887-1974) Elsa Laubach Jemne is an American painter and illustrator born in St. Paul, Minnesota. She attended the St. Paul Institute before continuing her art studies at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. She was a student of Violet Oakley, Cecilia Beaux, Daniel Garber, Emil Carlsen, and Joseph Pearson. She was awarded the Cresson Traveling Scholarship in both 1914 and 1915. She died in St. Paul in 1974. Her works for the Federal Art Project includes murals in the: Hutchinson, Minnesota Post Office Stearns County Courthouse in St. Cloud, Minnesota Minneapolis Armory. Central High School, Minneapolis, murals Leamy House, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Nurses Home, St. Luke’s Hospital Northern Shores Power Company building Women’s City Club, St. Paul, murals and terrazzo floors... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsa_Jemne

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