Laura Wheeler Waring
Laura Wheeler Waring was an AfricanAmerican artist and educator, best known for her paintings of prominent African Americans which she made during the Harlem Renaissance. She taught art for more thanyears at Cheyney University in Pennsylvania.
Laura Wheeler was born May 16, 1887 in Hartford, Connecticut, the fourth child of six born to Mary and Reverend Robert Foster Wheeler. Her mother was a daughter of Amos No Freeman, a Presbyterian minister, and Christiana Williams Freeman, who had been prominent in antislavery activities, including the Underground Railroad in Portland, Maine and Brooklyn, New York. Laura graduated from Hartford Public High School in 1906 and studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, graduating in 1914.
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