Portrait of a Woman with Rifle by Jeanie Walkinshaw 1954 Oil Painting

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About the artist:

Seattle artist Jeanie Walter Walkinshaw (1885-1976)

Education: early 1900s studied in Paris for two years under Lucien … more About the artist:

Seattle artist Jeanie Walter Walkinshaw (1885-1976)

Education: early 1900s studied in Paris for two years under Lucien Seimon and Rene Mesnard. Continued studies in the US with Robert Henri.

Illustrated On Puget Sound, by Robert Walkinshaw, 1929 and was a well-known Seattle area portrait artist in the early to mid-20th century.


Exhibitions: Pacific NW Exhibition 1920; Circle International des Femmes Peintres, Paris; Corcoran Gallery of Art;Society of Independent Artists (1922); Seattle Art Museum; Women Painters of Washington (1931-58); Salons of America


Collections: University of Washington, Whitman College, Walla Walla; University of Puget Sound, Temple of Justice Olympia, WA Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery



About the subject: Biography of Agnes Howie Chettle Borland Brennen (aka Nané) 1904-1990, Native of Scotland, presented to the Queen in the 1920s, lived in Kincardine Castle, married James Brennen (aka Canada), emigrated from Scotland to the United States (Seattle and then Poulsbo).

-1954 oil on canvas painting of Nané by Jeanie Walter Walkinshaw 38 x 46” less