Nell Choate Jones

Nell Choate Jones embarked on an artistic career when she was in her forties, and she spent the rest of her long life painting, exhibiting, and sustaining an active involvement in the arts and in women’s organizations.

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Mattie Lou O’Kelley

Mattie Lou O’Kelley began to paint in 1962, at the age of fifty-four. Memory painters like O’Kelley were known for depicting scenes from their earlier lives—usually rural themes reflecting simpler times.

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Lucy May Stanton

Lucy May Stanton created works in oil, pastel, and watercolor; but she is best known as a painter of portrait miniatures in watercolor on ivory, during a revival of that art form, which took place during the Arts and Crafts movement in the United States after 1890.

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Margaret Redmond

Margaret Redmond (1867-1948) created stained glass windows in Boston’s Trinity Church Parish House. Redmond’s work is also in Trinity Church itself.

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