Born: 1890, United States
Died: 1944
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.
Lily Norling Hardwick produced a unique body of work dedicated to the depiction of Northwest Native Americans. Born in Ellensburg, Washington, Hardwick attended the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts and studied with Audubon Tyler in New York. Around 1921 she painted her first Native American portrait and proceeded to live and work throughout the state’s reservations at Colville, Nespelem and LaPush.
She created numerous portraits of tribal figures, both male and female, painted in a vivid, modern style. This collection is now housed at the Yakama Nation Museum in Toppenish, Washington.