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Edna Palmer Engelhardt (1897 - 1991) American - Edna Palmer Engelhardt (1897 - 1991) Oil on Canvas, Signed, Measures ( 24 x 18 inches ) Edna Palmer Engelhardt was a professional artist from 1935 and became known for her paintings of early farm life and winter landscapes of the Poconos. In 1962, her painting of Big Pocono Mountain was placed in the lounge of the US Navy Flagship ”Poconos.”Her family were early pioneers of Pocono, and she grew up on a farm in Paradise Valley. There was no school, so her mother taught the children at home for the first eight grades. Later a Scranton businessman sponsored Edna and her sister through Mansfield Normal School, which became Mansfield University. After she graduated, she taught in Bethlehem and married Claude Palmer, a mechanical engineer. Condition: Good Condition