Born: 1880, United States
Died: 1968
Country most active: United States
Also known as: Elizabeth Campbell
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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.
Elizabeth Warhanik had been actively painting for decades by the time WPW was formed. Originally from Philadelphia, Warhanik attended Wellesley College and studied with Charles Woodbury (1864-1940). She lived in Japan as a missionary for several years before settling in Seattle by 1907.
Her paintings include landscape, floral, and marine imagery, often utilizing a bold and expressive technique in her color and brushwork. Like many other members of WPW, Warhanik was also an excellent printmaker and was the foremost regional practitioner of the white-line or Provincetown color print. Warhanik came from an artistic family and her sister, Eleanor Campbell (1894-1986), became well-known for her illustrations of the Dick & Jane reading primers.