Leaving home on several occasions, Payne painted houses, signs, portraits, murals, and local theater stage sets, to pay his way. Edgar’s occupation was listed as “carpenter, apprentice.” Census of 1900, he resided with his parents, two sisters and five brothers in Prairie Grove, Washington County, Arkansas his Alabama-born father was employed as a carpenter.
Cassville is in southwest Missouri, near the Arkansas border. Payne was born near Cassville, Barry County, Missouri, in the heart of the Ozarks. He was known as a Western landscape painter and muralist.
Edgar Alwin Payne (1 March 1883 – 8 April 1947) was an American painter.
