Kyra Markham

Kyra Markham was an actress, figurative painter and printmaker. Markham was briefly married to the architect Lloyd Wright, and five years later, married David Stoner Gaither. She worked for the Federal Arts Project, creating works of social realism that documented American life in the 1930s. During World War II, her art was focused on the propaganda effort against the Nazis.

Markham was born Elaine Hyman in Chicago, Illinois. She studied at the Chicago Art Institute from 1907 to 1919, and subsequently worked as a muralist and printmaker.

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