Artist

Laura Wheeler Waring

born Hartford, CT 1887-died Philadelphia, PA 1948
Also known as
  • Laura W. Waring
Born
Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Died
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Biography

Born in Connecticut, studied in Philadelphia and Paris, lived mostly in Pennsylvania. Artist, teacher whose paintings of distinguished African Americans are found in Smithsonian American Art Museum, the National Portrait Gallery, and the National Archives.

Charles Sullivan, ed American Beauties: Women in Art and Literature (New York: Henry N. Abrams, Inc., in association with National Museum of American Art, 1993)