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Born in Lewiston,
Illinois, Joane Cromwell is noted for her California coastal scenes,
particularly with sycamore trees, and desert landscapes. Her birth name was
Catherine Strode, but in 1926, she changed her name for professional reasons to
Joane Cromwell. She was married five times, and had last names of Blakley,
Skidmore, Christian, Cromwell, and Liddle.
She studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, and in 1920 moved to southern
California where she lived and worked in various places including Hollywood, Los
Angeles, Laguna Beach and Dana Point. She settled in Laguna Beach, first moving
there in 1922 with her mother. She had a studio atop Temple Hills with a
commanding view of the Pacific Ocean and Laguna landscape.
From 1922 to 1956, Cromwell exhibited at the Laguna Beach Art Gallery and was
living in Laguna Beach at the time of her death. She also made numerous trips to
the Palm Desert area, working from a second studio she had there and spending
weeks at a time painting the desert landscape. During World War II, when her
husband and son were overseas, she worked in a defense plant during the day and
painted at night.
Cromwell studied with Anna Althea Hills, George Demont Otis, and Edgar Payne and
also studied at the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles with John Wilkinson Smith.
She painted a large mural for the nearby Santa Anita Race Track in 1939 and in
1941, for the Hollywood Park Race Track. One of her large oil paintings of San
Juan Capistrano was owned by J. Edgar Hoover and was hung over his desk in his
F.B.I. office in Washington D.C.
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