Elizabeth Munro Kapner (Jari Rowley) (1936-2008). Oil on board painting depicting Kapner’s husband, Alex Kapner, with the family dog. Signed and dated along the lower right. Jari Rowley was born on April 25, 1936. She graduated from Morgan Park High School, Chicago, Illinois in 1954. She married Alex Kapner (1923–2011) on April 30, 1956 in Chicago. Alex was in attorney specializing in labor law and worked for the Federal Mediation Service. After her marriage Jari went by the name Elizabeth Kapner. She studied painting and while living in Chicago exhibited her work at the Golf Mill Theatre Art Gallery. Kapner worked as a writer, artist and cartoonist. Elizabeth developed severe allergies in 1961. In 1967, she illustrated a cookbook: “Very Basically Yours, An Allergy Cook Book.” The Kapner family moved to the Philadelphia suburbs in 1970. In 1971 Alex and Elizabeth built and moved into an allergy free house that they designed. It was constructed with special non-allergenic materials. Elizabeth continued painting in Philadelphia and exhibited at John Wanamaker’s 7th Floor Fine Arts Gallery (1976), Stouffer’s Valley Forge Hotel, Freedom Room (1976), and Stover Mill Gallery (1983). In 1987, her work was included in “An American Album” exhibit held in Nairobi, Kenya. Materials relating to the exhibit, including an Elizabeth Kapner drawing of her daughter, were donated to the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Elizabeth and Alex divorced in 1977. Throughout her life Kapner maintained an interest in the environmental causes of allergies. In 1979 she established her home as the Munro Ecologic Halfway House. Relying on referrals from physicians from all over the country, Kapner welcomed other people with severe allergies who paid a fee to stay for a time at her home
Height: 28 in x width: 20 in.
Condition: No visible tears or losses. Light wear to the frame. Not inspected out of frame.
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