Lane Dewitt

Lane DeWitt was born in 1956 in Phoenix Arizona and raised in New Mexico. He comes from a long line of cattlemen with family roots in New Mexico and Texas. One of his Great Grandfathers fought in the Civil war and was a Medal of Honor recipient; the other, was a trail boss who drove cattle on the Chisholm trail to the stockyards in Fort Worth Texas. Lane's Grandfather owned a Saloon in Phoenix Arizona with a pool hall in the front and gambling in the back to support the family thru the great depression. His other Grandfather Ralph Wells was a rancher in Oklahoma and an original founder of Navajo Missions, a charitable organization in Farmington NM that raises orphaned Navajo children in a Christian environment and provides them with a home and an education. His early artistic influences were his mother Florene DeWitt, a landscape artist, and his aunt Pat DeWitt, a prominent Arizona watercolorist. On weekends the family could be found exploring the pueblos of New Mexico or visiting friends on the Navajo reservation. Summers were spent on Grandfathers ranch in Oklahoma or at Navajo Mission in Farmington NM. While his grandparents were working, Lane would spend the day playing with the Navajo kids by the Animas river behind the missi...

Lyme Academy, Colledge of Fine Arts, Old Lyme CT.