Background
Maclane, M. Jean was born on September 14, 1878 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Daughter of George Alva and Annie (Wirsing) MacLane.
Maclane, M. Jean was born on September 14, 1878 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Daughter of George Alva and Annie (Wirsing) MacLane.
Graduate The Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, 1897. Pupil of Frank Duveneck, also in France and Italy.
Recipient two medals Saint Louis Exposition, 1904. Mary Elling prize New York Art Club, 1906, also Burgess prize, 1907. 1st prize International Art League, Paris, 1907.
Silver medal International Exposition, Buenos Aires, 1911.
Mary Shaw memorial prize, 1912, also Hallgarten prize, 1913, National Academy Design. Walter Lippincott prize Pennsylvania Academy Fine Arts, 1913, 19.
Silver medal Panama Philippine Islands Exposition, 1915. Maynard portrait prize National Academy of Design, 1923.
Harris prize and silver medal The Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, 1924.
Swift portrait prize Painters and Sculptors Association, 1929. Prize International Water Color Exhibition, The Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, 1929. First Altman prize National Academy, New York, 1935.
Represented in private galleries throughout United States, also in Museum of Art, Syracuse, New New York
The Art Institute of Chicago Chicago. San Antonio Art Museum.
Milwaukee The Art Institute of Chicago. Toledo Museum Art; National Portrait Gallery Washington, Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, Department Labor, Washington.
North.A.; member American Institute Arts and Letters, American Water Color Club, International Art League (Paris), National Association Portrait Painters.
Member American Institute Arts and Letters, American Water Color. Club: National Arts (life).
Married John C. Johansen, October 5, 1905. Children: Margaret MacLane (Mistress Robert Worthington) and John MacLane.