Jean Goodwin Ames, 82; Muralist and Professor
Jean Goodwin Ames, a retired professor of art at both Claremont Graduate School and Scripps College and a muralist and painter whose work has been displayed at many Southland institutions, died Wednesday at her home in Claremont.
She was 82 and taught at Claremont from 1940 until her retirement in 1962.
The first of her many murals was commissioned by USC and placed on the lobby wall of the USC Science Building in 1937.
Since then her work has been seen at Newport Harbor Union High School and Santa Ana College in Orange County while her enamel panels and ceramics were displayed at the Brussels World Fair in 1958 and at national ceramics exhibitions.
Much of her work was done in conjunction with her husband, Arthur Ames, who died in 1975.
Mrs. Ames was a 1958 Los Angeles Times Woman of the Year. She is survived by a sister, June Mayhall, of Laguna Hills.
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