Elsa Jemne

Elsa Laubach Jemne
Born	1888 St. Paul, Minnesota
Died	1974
Nationality	American
Alma mater	St. Paul Institute, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
Occupation	Painter, Illustrator

Elsa Laubach Jemne (1888-1974) is an American landscape painter, portraitist, muralist 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. While still a student, Jemne did commercial art, which she found "stupid, uncongenial, & maddening in its monotony."

Elsa Jemne became an advocate for art and culture in her home state of Minnesota in the early 20th Century during the Great Depression. Not interested in commercial art employment, she traveled by bus through-out what is known as "the Iron Range of Northern Minnesota" painting murals depicting local and regionally important themes. She married the portrait artist Frances Cranmer Greenman (1890-1981) and had children. Elsa Laubach Jemne died in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1974.

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