On April 27, 1927, Orlando and Gainesville women met at Lou Jerome’s home in Merritt Park, a suburb of Orlando, to found the Florida Federation of Art. The Orlando Star carried the following comments by Jerome from her annual report, “If anyone had told me a year ago that at this time there would appear an editorial in one of our daily papers telling of plans of erecting a municipal building …with art room included, I don’t know what I would have said…It is the things we expect that we get.” In 1924 Lou Jerome worked with Ruby Warren Newby, then an instructor in art at Rollins College and later chairman of the Rollins art department, to organize the Orlando Art Association, with Jerome elected the first president. Jerome was a successful realtor in Orlando. Jerome spent summers with her family in the Berkshire Mountains of Western Massachusetts and was married there, in August 1921, to Henry C. She was superintendent of the Art Department of the Central Florida, Sub-Tropical Mid-Winter Fair from 1919 to 1929. The Orlando Sentinel (October 19, 1930) said she was, “one of the foremost instigators of art development in Florida and particularly ‘The City Beautiful.’” Born in Brooklyn, New York, and educated at the Art Students’ League, she moved to Orlando in 1910, and, at the age of twenty, joined the Orlando Old Maids Club! Halstead opened the Concord Art Shop, a small art gallery and tea-room on the corner of Magnolia and Concord in Orlando, and began teaching art at Rollins College and Orlando’s Cathedral School for Girls. Lou Halstead Jerome was an important early leader of the art community in Orlando. Lou Halstead Jerome, watercolor, 10 by 13 inches, signed lower right.
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