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About Laura Wheeler Waring
Laura Wheeler Waring was an African-American artist and educator, most renowned for her realistic portraits, landscapes, still-life, and well-known African American portraitures she made during the Harlem Renaissance. She was one of the few African American artists in France, a turning point of her career and profession where she attained widespread attention, exhibited in Paris, won awards, and spent the next 30 years teaching art at Cheyney University in Pennsylvania.
Everything about Laura Wheeler Waring →- Occupation
- painter, illustrator, artist, university teacher
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- May 16, 1887, 1887
- Died
- February 3, 1948, 1948