McLane also made portrait paintings of a Greek and Australian Premiers and Elisabeth, Queen of the Belgians.

[1] While a student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago she met John Christen Johansen and later became his wife.

[6] She first studied with John Vanderpoel at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago[7] and later in Cincinnati under Frank Duveneck[7] and in New York City under William M.

Asked by a group of philanthropists to help depict the Allied Leaders from World War I[2] she provided the only female subject, Queen Elisabeth of the Belgians,[9] This painting today is exhibited in the National Museum of American Art.

The exhibition of 20 portraits, including Johansen's Signing the Peace Treaty, June 28, 1919, circulated among American cities.