A Life Painted in Light and Shadow Betty Lane, born Elizabeth Thoburn Lane in Washington D.C. in 1907, was an American artist whose evocative watercolors and oils quietly charted a course through the shifting currents of modernist art. Her life, spanning nearly a century, was one of constant exploration – not just of artistic technique but also of place and perspective. The daughter of a Marine officer and raised amidst a large family, Lane’s early exposure to diverse locales – her father's postings included the Philippines and Santo Domingo – likely instilled in her a lifelong wanderlust an…