Lane K. Newberry was born in 1896 near Fort Madison, Iowa.
He was an artist who wanted to preserve history by painting and was at the height of his career in Downers Grove.
He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Rudolph Weisenborn and Edmund Giesbert gave him special encouragement. Though he had radical instruction, his tastes ran to the conservative. He was interested in the objective picture with only a dash of subjective interpretation.
