Anaïs Abreu D’Argence
Mexican poet, writer, editor, book artist and translator.
Category Archives: Visual Art
Continue reading
Harriet Bagwell
Irish philanthropist and promoter of local industry
María Concepción Bautista Vázquez
Maria Concepcion Bautista Vázquez is a Tsotsil writer and painter from the Tsotsil pueblo of Huixtan, Chiapas.
Erica O’Donnell
Irish art historian and WWII espionage officer
Esther Bubley
Photographer Esther Bubley found ample subject matter to explore on the American homefront as the nation mobilized for war during WWII.
Toni Frissell
Remembered today principally for her high-fashion photography for Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar, Toni Frissell volunteered her photographic services to the American Red Cross, Women’s Army Corps, and Eighth Army Air Force during WWII. On their behalf, she produced thousands of images of nurses, front-line soldiers, WACs, African-American airmen, and orphaned children.
Mitsu Yashima
Japanese-American artist, children’s book author, and civic activist who worked with the OSS (predecessor to the CIA)
Jeanne Taylor
Graphic designer who worked for the OSS, the precursor to the CIA
Ada Florence Kinton
Canadian artist, teacher, Salvation Army officer, and newspaper edito
Agnes Mongan
First woman museum curator at Harvard University’s Fogg Art Museum