Born: 1895, United States
Died: 1992
Country most active: United States
Also known as: NA
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The six founders of Women Painters of Washington were Myra Albert Wiggins (1869-1956), Elizabeth Warhanik (1880-1968), Lily Norling Hardwick (1890-1944), Dorothy Dolph Jensen (1895-1977), Anna B. Stone (1869-1950), and Helen Bebb (1878-1947), who acted as an administrator and was not an active painter.
Dorothy Milne Rising (1895-1992) was born in Tacoma and after studying locally, attended the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and the Cleveland Art Institute. After studies back East she returned to Seattle, attended the University of Washington, and became an early proponent of Modernism in the Northwest, writing articles in local and national publications in defense of Modern Art.
In 1940, she along with two other WPW members, Florence Nesbit (1910-2001) and Vara Grube (1903-1994), founded the Northwest Watercolor Society, an organization that is still flourishing today.