Betty Lane

Betty Lane
Betty Lane at work, 1960s
Born	1907 (1907) Washington, D.C.
Died	1996 (aged 88–89) Brewster, Massachusetts
Nationality	American
Education	Corcoran College of Art and Design, Massachusetts Normal Art School
Known for	Painting
Movement	Modernism

Betty Lane (1907 – 1996) was an American artist.

Lane's first exhibition was at the Phillips Memorial Gallery in 1931. Lane created figure subjects, portraits, and landscapes executed in watercolor and oil. Her work includes nature and street scenes in the Americas and Europe, domestic scenes, and grotesques.

Lane's work is included in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art,The Phillips Collection, the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, and the Cape Cod Museum of Art.

Born in Washington, D.C. in 1907, Betty Lane was the youngest of six children born to a Marine officer. Lane began painting in watercolor around age 9. After high school Lane enrolled at the Corcoran College of Art and Design. Unhappy at Corcoran, she transferred to the Massachusetts Normal Art School.

In 1928 Lane traveled to Paris and studied with André Lhote. In 1929 Lane returned to the United States, living in Falls Church, Virginia and Washington, D.C. It was during this period that Lane's work came to the attention of Duncan Phillips. In April 1931 Lane was part of an exhibition at the Phillips Memorial Gallery with John Marin and Harold Weston.