Luckily the artist in her offered some understanding.Īs a couple they became well known in Chicago's art circle. On the morning of their wedding day about a year later, 9 November 1912, Edgar noticed that the light was "perfect", and had Elsie postpone the ceremony until the afternoon. This cemented their already growing interest in each other. When he returned to Illinois that fall, he found that Elsie had taken a job as commercial artist in Chicago. He returned to California for a second time in 1911. In San Francisco he met other artists, including commercial artist Elsie Palmer (1884–1971). He spent several months painting at Laguna Beach, then headed to San Francisco. He made his way to California for the first time in 1909, at the age of 26. During this period he also obtained the occasional mural work to supplement his income. Struggling at first, he soon exhibited a group of landscape works, painted on a small easel, at the Palette and Chisel Club. He preferred instead to be self-taught, relying on practice and his own sense of direction. He remained only two weeks at the institute, finding it too structured. Traveling through the Ozarks, then around the Southeast and Midwest, he finally wound up in Chicago, and enrolled to study portrait art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Leaving home on several occasions, Payne painted houses, signs, portraits, murals, and local theater stage sets, to pay his way. Edgar’s occupation was listed as “carpenter, apprentice.” Census of 1900, he resided with his parents, two sisters and five brothers in Prairie Grove, Washington County, Arkansas his Alabama-born father was employed as a carpenter.
Cassville is in southwest Missouri, near the Arkansas border. Payne was born near Cassville, Barry County, Missouri, in the heart of the Ozarks. He was known as a Western landscape painter and muralist. Edgar Alwin Payne (1 March 1883 – 8 April 1947) was an American painter.
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