Biography
Born in American Falls, Idaho, Alice Trumblee 's family lived in Asceiqua near Rupert. During the Great Depression, Trumblee and her family moved back to Idaho from Oregon. Her Aunt Violet, a country school teacher, gave Trumblee her first lessons in watercolor painting.
A telegram offering her a job at the Gospel Publishing House as an artist prompted Trumblee to head east to Drury College in Springfield, Missouri where her work as an illustrator supported her through college.
Trumblee became the first art teacher at Skyline High School where she taught the basics of design, perspective, and composition using many different techniques and media and where she influenced generations of aspiring artists.
She was an active member of the Idaho Falls Art Guild (now the Eagle Rock Art Guild) where she served as secretary and took night classes from Oliver Parson. Helen Aupperle, one of the Guild's founding members, loved to paint “in the field” but hated to drive, so Trumblee became her chauffeur. Trumblee spent nearly every weekend painting Idaho scenery at her family cabin on Big Elk Creek at Palisades.
After retiring from teaching art at Skyline High School in 1987, she and her husband traveled extensively in the 90s. During their trips around the United States, Europe, and Mexico, she continued to record her travels in paintings. Trumblee saw the completion of The Art Museum in the fall of 2002 after ten years of raising building funds and served on its original board of directors.