Three-quarter length portrait of a young woman with dark hair and blue eyes. She is wearing an aqua strapless formal gown. She is standing with her right arm resting on a pedestal and has a rose colored scarf draped behind her shoulders and through her fingers.
Artwork Details
Medium
Oil on Canvas
Collection
Private Collection
Made/Created
Artist
Miller, K. Connell
Date made
1966
General Notes
Note Type
Historical Note
Note
Jean Blackburn was born on November 16, 1913, in Pulaski, TN, daughter of Jean Ballenger and James Knox Blackburn, M.D. She attended Rollins College in Winter Park, FL, where she joined Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, and received her BA degree from Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, Virginia. After graduation she continued her music studies at Ward Belmont in Nashville. She was a hostess in the Tennessee Pavilion at the first New York World Fair in 1939. During World War II, she worked for Naval Air Transport in San Francisco, CA.
She married Fred Robinson Jr. and had two children with him. He died in 1969 and she married Jere Taylor Tipton in 1972. Jean died in 2016, and is buried in Forest Hills Cemetery in Chattanooga.
