Elizabeth Boardman Warren, Potato Farm in Hastings, Florida, watercolor, gouache, 13 and 3/4 by 20 inches. Signed in pencil lower left.
While living in Boston Elizabeth Warren worked as an illustrator for children’s books and the magazine Youth’s Companion. In 1924 she began to exhibit with the Provincetown Art Association and while there, studying etching, met and married artist Tod Lindenmuth.
Elizabeth Lindenmuth worked under the name E. B. Warren, because “Male sells better than female.” The couple worked on Cape Cod until advised by a physician to take their children to a warmer climate. Fellow artist and friend Heinrich Pfeiffer urged them to go to St. Augustine. They arrived for the winter season of 1935, opened a studio in the Fatio House, and began a long association with the Arts Club. A few years later, in 1940, they bought a home.
The couple maintained a summer studio and gallery in Provincetown, on Cape Cod and wintered in St. Augustine. In 1940 Clarence Off, in the St. Augustine Record, commented, “Of the members of this art colony, of all those who so deeply appreciate the setting they have chosen, I know of none who more faithfully adhere to the artist’s creed of pure beauty than do Mr. and Mrs. Tod Lindenmuth. When you enter their studio in the Old Fatio House on Aviles Street, it is to fill your eyes with harmonious color, to find delicacy of etched lines, to discover interpretation that has caught the very essence of beauty; and to come to know two charming personalities who have put so much of their very selves into every bit of the work they have done.”
Elizabeth Boardman Warren, Magnolias, watercolor, 20 1/2 by 24 inches. Signed lower left.
According to author Robert Torchia in his book, Lost Colony, The Artists of St. Augustine, 1930-1950, they never owned a car, and sought subjects on long walks around the city. Over the years Lindenmuth and Warren served as officers of the Arts Club and were esteemed members of St. Augustine’s cultural community. In 1968 they retired to Wesley Manor (now Westminster Woods, on Julington Creek) in Jacksonville. In 1974 they were both elected honorary life members of the St. Augustine Art Association in appreciation of the support they had given it for almost forty years.
Elizabeth Boardman Warren, Florida Dunes, watercolor, 12 1/4 by 21 1/4 inches, signed lower right.
Born: 1886, Bridgeport, Connecticut. Died: 1980 Education: Massachusetts Normal School of Art, Provincetown, Massachusetts; Charles Simpson; with Eliot O’Hara. Membership: St. Augustine Arts Club; Artists Guild of St. Augustine; Palm Beach Art League; Florida Federation of Art; Provincetown Art Association, Copley Society; Rockport Art Association. Exhibits: St. Augustine Arts Club, February 1937; Florida Federation of Art, 11th Annual, December 2-5, 1937, St. Augustine, best watercolor, professional, Over in Lincolnville, etching, Riding the Wind; SAAC, January, February, March 1938; Federation of Art 12th Annual, Society of The Four Arts, Palm Beach, December 1938, watercolor, A Glimpse of the Sea, and honorable mention, landscape, watercolor, shanty scene, Morning Call; SAAC, January, February, March 1939; Florida Federation of Art, Annual Exhibit, Bradenton, December 1940, St. Augustine scenes, Morning in Lincolnville, Turpentine Still; SAAC, Alcazar Hotel, January 1941, watercolor, Pounding Surf, dry points, Old Llambias House, Trinity from the Plaza, Mammy’s Totin; Florida Watercolor Society, Society of The Four Arts, Palm Beach, March 1941, Busy Day, Home in the Rain, Pounding Surf, The Pink House; Florida Watercolor Society, 3rd Annual Exhibit, Society of The Four Arts, Palm Beach, January 1942, etchings, The Vegetable Cart, Busy Day, Live Oak and China Berry, Florida Shoreline, Florida Cabins, Morning After the Rain, Fixin to Go; Florida Federation of Art, 15th Annual Exhibit, Palm Beach Art League, December 1942, best watercolor, Washday; Society of The Four Arts, 5th Annual Members Exhibit, Palm Beach, January 1943, Busy Day, Shelter; Florida Federation of Art, 16th Annual, St. Petersburg, December 1943, best Florida painting, (A watercolor of a backwoods shack with rain soaked foliage.); Society of The Four Arts, 6th Annual Members Exhibit, Palm Beach, January 1944, watercolors, Along the Shore, Fixin to Go, Sudden Showers; Palm Beach Art League, Norton Gallery, March 1944; Florida Federation of Art, Annual Circuit, 1944, Jacksonville, On Monday; SAAC, February 1945, The Old Barn, Lotus Land; Palm Beach Art League 27th Annual, Norton Gallery, March 1945, two watercolors; SAAC, January 1946, watercolors, Loquats, The Gill Net; SAAC, February 1946, watercolors of Florida scenes, The End of Day, Busy Morning; SAAC, March 1946, Negro quarter subjects; SAAC, February 1947, On Anastasia; SAAC, January 1948, Fishing Camp, Monsanto Chemicals; Society of The Four Arts, 13th Annual Members Exhibit, December 1950-January 1951; St. Augustine Art Association, March 1952, Adele Barret Award, best watercolor, Market Day in Jamaica; March of Dimes, Outdoor Exhibit, St. Augustine Plaza, February 1953; SAAA, February 1955; SAAA, Exchange Bank of St. Augustine, February 1956, Noon Mexico; Aviles Gallery, March 1956; Artists’ Guild of St. Augustine, farewell exhibit, January 1957; SAAA, March 1959, honorable mention, watercolor, 1st award, dry point, Market Women in Tropics; SAAA, January 1960, 2nd Milton Bacon Award, watercolor, Mending Nets-Gloucester; Philadelphia Art Alliance; Chicago Society of Etchers; California Printmakers. Directory: Listed in the St. Augustine City Directory in 1940 as a portrait artist with a studio at 20 Aviles and again in St. Augustine in 1953, 54, 55, 59, 1960, with studio at 46 Carrera.
Elizabeth Boardman Warren, In a Florida Garden, watercolor, signed lower right E.B.L.
