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.
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.
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.
Mary Telfair
Benefactor of Telfair Museums in Savannah, Georgia (U.S.)
Anne Baker
1800s English linguist, natural historian and illustrator
Henriëtta van Pee
1700s Dutch painter
Teresa Muratori
1600s Italian composer and painter
Laura Pope Forester
American artist Laura Pope Forester made concrete figures, many commemorating important women in history and literature, including Nancy Hart, a heroine of the Revolutionary War (1775-83)
Jessie Redding Hull
American author and speech therapist, wrote and published books for children, youth and learning-disabled adults, as well as poetry.