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Harbor (#9), Monhegan Island, Maine

French Cathedral (#18), New Orleans

Jane Kofler was born in 1911 to Allen Philbrick, a landscape painter, and Edith Kellogg Philbrick, pianist. She spent her early days in Chicago, Maine, and White Lake Michigan.

In 1932, after graduating from Wellesley College, she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Art Institute of Chicago and went on to teach fine arts and art history at Milwaukee-Downer College in Wisconsin.The Curving Road (#8), Alna, Maine

By 1943, Jane moved to Washington, DC to work as a map draftsman for the Office of Strategic Services. It was here she met and married John Kofler, also an artist. They lived in Alexandria and, in addition to their individual art endeavors, they created together a series of silkscreen cards of Old Town, Alexandria.

As they raised their family in the new community of Tauxemont, off the George Washington Parkway, Jane taught art for six years in the Fairfax County Public School system. She went on to teach art history as an adjunct professor at George Washington University while earning her MA in Art History at American University.

Jane's medium was printmaking, oil and watercolor until the 1970s when she began to experiment with stained glass, studying with Harriet Schultz at the Torpedo Factory. She created the eight-foot in diameter stained glass window for the Mount Vernon Unitarian Church in Alexandria, windows for the meditation room at the INOVA Mount Vernon Hospital, and numerous windows for private collectors.

Jane continues her long connection with the arts and currently lives in Maryland.