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.
- Occupation
- painter, illustrator, artist, university teacher
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- May 16, 1887, 1887
- Died
- February 3, 1948, 1948
