Jane Betts

Jane Burke (1926-1984) attended Bennington College for three years then completed her bachelor of fine arts at the University of Illinois, where she also got her masters degree in 1950. She met Edward Betts at the Art Students League in the late 1940s and married him in 1949. She was the catalyst for Edward Betts accepting a teaching position, and pursuing his Master's Degree, at the University of Illinois in Champaign, Illinois, her home town.

She was an accomplished artist who began as an abstract artist, like Edward, but two abstract artists in the same family led to Jane evolving to more realistic style, though often with distorted perspectives hinting at her abstract beginnings.