Jesse Agnes Palmer
was
born in a small Texas cotton gin town of two hundred. Her family
moved to Dallas when she was a child. She always wanted to be
an artist but the necessities of family responsibilities delayed her
serious study. It was not until she was in her forties in the 1920s,
that she began study with Frank Reaugh and Martha Simkins, and at
the Carlson School of Landscape Painting, in Woodstock, New York.
She also studied at the Broadmoor Art Academy in Colorado Springs,
Colorado during the summers of 1931 and 1932. She was
invited to participate in the famous Davis Texas Wildflower
Competitive Exhibition, San Antonio, in 1927. A quick
study, she had an immediate impact on Texas art. A story of her life
and art were featured in the October, 1929 issue of "La Revue
Moderne" in Paris. She lived in Amarillo from 1927 to 1933 where she
helped organize the Palo Duro Art Colony. Her works were shown in
galleries from Texas to New York. She exhibited at the Elizabet
Ney Museum,
San Antonio Art League, Witte Museum, Frank Klepper Art Club,
Texas-Oklahoma Fair, Texas State Fair, Oak
Cliff Society of Fine Art, Fort Worth Museum of Art, Texas-Oklahoma
Fair, Southern States Art League, Texas Fine Arts Association,
Dallas Woman's Forum, Frank Reaugh Art Club, Texas State Fair, and
Dallas Art Association. She was honored with numerous solo
exhibitions. Her numinous interpretations in oils are a unique
vision of the panoramas of Texas.