Luvena Vysekal

She was born December 23, 1873, in Le Mars, Iowa, her parents were Scottish.

[1] She was trained at the Art Institute of Chicago between 1910 and 1914, where her future husband Edouard Vysekal was one of her professors.

She later opened a studio on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles, California.

[3] In 1895 she used the alias of Hattie Lummis and wrote a poem for a song prize commissioned by the Wabash Railboard, which became "In the Shadow of the Pines," later performed by the Carter Family and Bascom Lamar Lunsford.

[4][5] She used the pseudonym "Benjamin Blue" to publish a 1922 book, Counterfeit Presentations.