Laura Wheeler Waring
March is Women’s History Month. Our site always centers women’s history; this month we’ll do so a bit more emphatically.
Waring in 1910. Amsterdam News.
One hundred years ago today … Laura Wheeler Waring’s drawing accompanied a story by Annette Christine Browne in the March 1921 Brownies Book.
The Brownies Book, March 1921, p. 73. University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Waring, at this point still working under her original name Laura Wheeler, would become a central figure in the visual arts of the Harlem Renaissance, particularly known for portraits. In 1945, commissioned to do portraits of important Black Americans, she painted this one of her Brownies Book editor, Jessie Redmond Faucet (about whom see our post for February 22, 1921).
– Jonathan Goldman, March 16, 2021
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