A Survey of Women Artists Working in California, 1860-1960
Elsie Palmer Payne, Bus Stop, Black woman, painting
“Bus Stop” by Elsie Palmer Payne

The online arts magazine “Hyperallergic” profiles the art and life of Elsie Palmer Payne. Elsie was one of the artists included in “Something Revealed” at the Pasadena Museum of History.

In the article, Seed writes, “Like the canvas itself, which has been hidden away for years in a private collection, the painted woman in Elsie Palmer Payne’s “Bus Stop” is ready to be studied and re-evaluated. So is the artist who painted her with such great empathy and emotional force: Elsie Palmer Payne (1884–1971)

Read the article about Elsie Palmer Payne