Willie Betty Newman

Willie Betty Newman
Taken by J. C. Strauss, 1902
Born(1863-01-21)January 21, 1863
Murfreesboro, Tennessee, U.S.
DiedFebruary 6, 1935(1935-02-06) (aged 72)
Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.
EducationSoule College
Greenwood Seminary
Alma materCincinnati Art School
Académie Julian
OccupationPainter
SpouseJ. Warren Newman
Children1 son
Parent(s)William Francis Betty
Sophie Rucker

Willie Betty Newman (1863-1935) was an American painter. Born on a plantation during the Civil War, she studied painting in Cincinnati, Ohio and Paris, France. She exhibited her paintings in Parisian salons in the 1890s. She established a studio in Nashville, Tennessee, in the early 1900s, where she did portraits of prominent Tennesseans, including President James K. Polk.

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