Jane Whiting Chrzanoska was born in Germantown, Philadelphia in 1948. She began drawing and painting at such an early age that by 14 she felt confident enough to attempt her first mural, an 8'x12' depiction of Napoleon at Waterloo on her bedroom wall. Two years later she convinced her best friend to provide her own bedroom wall so that Jane could paint 'The Ride of the Valkyries' from Wagner's Ring Cycle. At age 16 she was accepted into the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia to begin studies the following year. She also made her first important sale, a...more
