Jessie Aline White was born in South Dakota and studied at the Minneapolis School of Art, Art Institute of Chicago and Art Students League. She moved to Dallas in 1919 after traveling to France to support the Allied Expeditionary Forces in France. She was quick to adopt and to be adopted by Texans and become a leading member of the Dallas art community. A printmaker, watercolorist and painter her works were shown in the Texas State Fairs, Southern States Art League, in solo exhibitions in the most prestigious Dallas Galleries and the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, in the Texas Centennial Exposition, and in the Texas General Exhibitions.