Lilla Cabot Perry
American painter
American painter
Czech operatic soprano
American dancer, pantomime artist, writer and painter.
Social reformer, women’s rights activist, painter and poet
Aboriginal Australian painter and educator
American painter overshadowed by her husband
Artist and musician Estelle Peck Ishigo (1899–1990), a white woman who married a Nisei man, is best known for chronicling life at the Heart Mountain, Wyoming, concentration camp through her drawings and paintings.
An accomplished painter and muralist, her background in the arts framed her response to problems as varied as how to reduce youth violence, protect the environmental quality of the Mercer Island Slough, and improve the financial viability of Seattle city-owned arts facilities.
The former Executive Director of Seattle’s Northwest African American Museum, Barbara Earl Thomas is far more than an institutional administrator. She is also an inspiring lecturer on the topics of art and culture and — as the University of Washington Press notes — a “painter and writer of prodigious talent and remarkable visionary sensibility.”
Gene Ritchie Monahan was a northern Minnesotan portrait and landscape artist.