Jane Wooster Scott, who makes her home in Sun Valley, Idaho, received no formal art training before beginning her career. As a young woman, she attended one semester at Emerson College in Boston. She then went to New York for the summer, fully intending to return to college in the fall. However, while in New York, she began working in television and was soon given a screen test by 20th Century Fox. The studio offered her a contract and she moved to Los Angeles. It was not until after the birth of her two children that she began to paint, experimenting with oils on canvas to decorate her Los Angeles home.

Pleased with her first attempts, she created more and more works. Friends were soon asking to buy them. Instead, Wooster Scott chose to exhibit her paintings at a show on La Cienega Boulevard's famed "gallery row" in Los Angeles. She exhibited alongside comedian Jonathan Winters at the Ankrum Gallery. On the first night, the gallery sold out her entire collection of 40 paintings. In the years since that first exhibition, Wooster Scott has become the foremost painter of Americana in the world today.

Jane Wooster Scott was born and reared in Pennsylvania on the edge of rural America. She attended a Quaker School near Philadelphia. Wooster Scott often includes figures in her paintings of a little girl with long dark hair, depictions of her daughter Ashley as a child. Her son Vernon IV is depicted as an active, mischievous lad. The ubiquitous white dog with the floppy ears looks a great deal like Mitzi, her favorite childhood pet.

Though she has traveled around the world, Wooster Scott's subject matter is still rooted in the world she knew as a child. She aspires to capture an America that was disappearing even as she was growing up… the Pennsylvania Dutch towns… the simple beauty of Quaker and Amish farms. Her "It's A Wonderful Life" lithograph brings those days and memories back to life for Indiana County.

Jane Wooster Scott Quotes

• Painting to me is more than a vocation or an avocation. For me painting is a compulsion to record the life, color and beauty that I see in the world around me in terms of how it was in the past. I strive to record as much of it as possible in the hope my canvases will help perpetuate memories of a wondrous time in a great and growing country. It pleases me to think that future generations will see my work and share the fondness and pride I hold for America at the turn of the 20th century.
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• The leading exponent of American primitive painting… Her own distinctive style, recreating in bright uninhibited colors, an older, simpler world… Collectors of her work include art connoisseurs and celebrities.
  Good Housekeeping Magazine
  
  
• Jane Wooster Scott is the lone Hollywood master painter of our time. Her works already have become legendary. She is without peer.
  New York Daily News
  
  
• Jane Wooster Scott's naïve approach brings, besides nostalgia, great warmth and a wonderful touch of humor to enrich our 20th century environment… her works are highly collectable… the work is personal, often touched with fantasy, and most importantly, it is sincere.
  Art Voices South Magazine
  
  
• Jane Wooster Scott, one of the first American artists to break the barrier with big sales in Japan and one of the most uniformly popular… In one year they bought 40 of her originals, sight unseen!
  The Art Collector Magazine
  
  

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