Elanor Colburn
{{short description|American painter (1866–1939)}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Elanor Colburn
| birth_name = Eleanor Ruth Gump
| birth_date = 1866
| birth_place = Dayton, Ohio, U.S.
| death_date = May 7, 1939
| death_place = Laguna Beach, California, U.S.
| other_names = Elanor Ruth Eaton Gump, Eleanor Ruth Eaton Gump Colburn
| burial_place = Fairhaven Memorial Park, Santa Ana, California, U.S.
| education = School of the Art Institute of Chicago (BFA)
| occupation = Painter, watercolorist, muralist
| spouse = Charles Harry Eaton (div.),
Joseph Elliott Colburn (m. 1898–1915; div.)
| children = Ruth Eaton Peabody
}}
File:Elanor Colburn New Earth (1933).jpg
Elanor Ruth Eaton Gump Colburn (née Eleanor Ruth Gump; 1866 – May 7, 1939), was an American painter.{{cite web |title=Elanor Colburn |url=https://lagunaartmuseum.org/artist/elanor-colburn/ |website=Laguna Art Museum |accessdate=July 8, 2020}}{{Cite web |title=Elanor Ruth Eaton Gump Colburn |url=https://www.askart.com/artist/Elanor_Ruth_Eaton_Gump_Colburn/9358/Elanor_Ruth_Eaton_Gump_Colburn.aspx |website=AskArt.com}} She was active in Chicago, and Laguna Beach, California.
Life and career
Eleanor Ruth Gump was born in 1866, in Dayton, Ohio. In 1927, she changed her name to "Elanor".{{Cite web |title=Elanor Colburn |url=https://illinoiswomenartists.org/author/elanor-colburn/ |access-date=2025-06-29 |website=Illinois Women Artists |language=en-US}} She attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and was a student under William Merritt Chase and Frank Duveneck.
In the 1920s she spent time at Ogunquit Art Colony in Ogunquit, Maine. Colburn's painting Fishwives, was awarded the Leisser–Farnham Prize in 1930 from the San Diego Art Guild.{{Cite news |date=June 7, 1930 |title=L. A. Painter Wins O'Rourke Artist Prize |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-san-diego-sun-l-a-painter-wins-or/175566911/ |access-date=2025-06-29 |work=The San Diego Sun |pages=20 |via=Newspapers.com}}
Her first marriage was to Charles Harry Eaton (1850–1901), a landscape painter. Their daughter was Ruth Eaton Peabody (1893–1966), a noted painter.{{Cite news |date=February 19, 1939 |title=Exhibit of Ruth Peabody's Abstract Paintings At Fine Arts Gallery; Gaw Display Draws S.D. Critics |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-san-diego-sun-exhibit-of-ruth-peabod/175557271/ |access-date=2025-06-29 |work=The San Diego Sun |pages=13 |via=Newspapers.com}} Her second marriage was in 1898 to Joseph Elliott Colburn, an ophthalmologist, which ended in divorce by 1915.
Around 1924, she moved with her daughter to Laguna Beach, California, where they were some of the early artists in the area.{{Cite book |last=Laguna Art Museum (Laguna Beach, Calif.) |first= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5H40AQAAIAAJ |title=75 Works, 75 Years: Collecting the Art of California |date=1993 |publisher=Laguna Art Museum |isbn=978-0-940872-19-6 |language=en}}{{Cite book |last=Dominik |first=Janet B. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=trxJAQAAIAAJ |title=Early Artists in Laguna Beach: The Impressionists : September 23 to November 5, 1986, Laguna Art Museum |last2=Laguna Art Museum |first2= |date=1986 |publisher=Laguna Art Museum |isbn=978-0-940872-07-3 |pages=96 |language=en}}
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Category:20th-century American painters
Category:20th-century American women painters
Category:Painters from California
Category:People from Dayton, Oregon
Category:People from Laguna Beach, California
Category:School of the Art Institute of Chicago alumni
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