Emma Lane Elkins
- BORN
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March 26, 1925
Rocky Comfort, Missouri
- DIED
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November 6, 2007
El Paso, Colorado
- EDUCATION
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Cranbrook Academy of Art
Bloomfield Hills, MichiganColumbia University
New York, New YorkSouthwest Missouri State College
Springfield, Missouri
Emma Lane Elkins was born on March 25, 1925, in Rocky Comfort, Missouri. Elkins graduated with honors in 1949 with a bachelor's in education from Southwest Missouri State University (now Missouri State University) in Springfield, Missouri. While enrolled there, she was a student assistant to the art department.
At Columbia University in New York, where Elkins was pursuing a master’s in fine arts, she was the president of the Teachers College Art Club from 1949-1950, and earned her master’s degree in 1950.
Elkins also studied at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, and was mentored by Marguerite Wildenhain in Guerneville, California, and Nancy Maines at New Mexico Highland University in Las Vegas, New Mexico.
Elkins was a professor of ceramics, jewelry and sculpture at Southwest Missouri State University beginning in 1950. She made ceramics using the techniques of thrown stoneware and earthy glazes. Her jewelry work was done using the lost wax technique in sterling silver. She exhibited her work frequently in Springfield and in other states during her career.
Emma Lane Elkins died on November 6, 2007.
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“Emma Lane Elkins in the U.S., Social Security Applications and Claim Index, 1936-2007,” Ancestry, accessed January 24, 2022.
“Art Faculty,” MSU Historic Photographs, Missouri State Digital Collections, accessed March 9, 2022, https://cdm17307.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/MSUphotos/id/16/.
“Faculty and Staff: In Memoriam,” Art and Design Department, Missouri State University, accessed March 9, 2022, https://art.missouristate.edu/people.aspx.
“Elkins, (E) Lane,” in Jaques Cattell Press, Who’s Who in American Art, (New York: R.R. Bowker Company, 1980), 208.
“Elkins, (E) Lane,” in Jaques Cattell Press, Who’s Who in American Art, (New York: R.R. Bowker Company, 1978), 196.
“Five in Art Exhibit,” St. Louis Globe-Democrat, April 6, 1963, 5F.
“Lane Elkins,” Design Quarterly, no. 45-46 (1959): 16, 54.
“Lane Elkins Exhibiting Pottery in Springfield,” The Wheaton Journal (Wheaton, Missouri), November 13, 1958, 1.
“Lane Elkins Exhibits Art in National Show,” The Wheaton Journal (Wheaton, Missouri), November 4, 1954, 4.
“Springfield Art Museum, April 1, 1952,” from the Darkroom: Springfield’s Historic Newspaper Photographs, Missouri Digital Heritage, accessed March 9, 2022, https://cdm16795.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16795coll19/id/4260.
“To Receive College Degree in May,” The Wheaton Journal (Wheaton, Missouri), March 17, 1949,1.
Core Reference Sources
Anita Jacobsen, Jacobsen's Biographical Index of American Artists (Carrollton: A.J. Publications, 2002).
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Unknown, Emma Lane Elkins, 1962.
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Included in Ozarko (Springfield, Missouri: Southwest Missouri State College, 1962), Book One, 51.
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Artist clippings file is available at:
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“Emma Lane Elkins in the U.S., Social Security Applications and Claim Index, 1936-2007,” Ancestry, accessed January 24, 2022.
“Art Faculty,” MSU Historic Photographs, Missouri State Digital Collections, accessed March 9, 2022, https://cdm17307.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/MSUphotos/id/16/.
“Faculty and Staff: In Memoriam,” Art and Design Department, Missouri State University, accessed March 9, 2022, https://art.missouristate.edu/people.aspx.
“Elkins, (E) Lane,” in Jaques Cattell Press, Who’s Who in American Art, (New York: R.R. Bowker Company, 1980), 208.
“Elkins, (E) Lane,” in Jaques Cattell Press, Who’s Who in American Art, (New York: R.R. Bowker Company, 1978), 196.
“Five in Art Exhibit,” St. Louis Globe-Democrat, April 6, 1963, 5F.
“Lane Elkins,” Design Quarterly, no. 45-46 (1959): 16, 54.
“Lane Elkins Exhibiting Pottery in Springfield,” The Wheaton Journal (Wheaton, Missouri), November 13, 1958, 1.
“Lane Elkins Exhibits Art in National Show,” The Wheaton Journal (Wheaton, Missouri), November 4, 1954, 4.
“Springfield Art Museum, April 1, 1952,” from the Darkroom: Springfield’s Historic Newspaper Photographs, Missouri Digital Heritage, accessed March 9, 2022, https://cdm16795.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16795coll19/id/4260.
“To Receive College Degree in May,” The Wheaton Journal (Wheaton, Missouri), March 17, 1949,1.
Core Reference Sources
Anita Jacobsen, Jacobsen's Biographical Index of American Artists (Carrollton: A.J. Publications, 2002).
Contributors
Roberta Wagener, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Artist Record Published
Published on March 15, 2022
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