Myra Wiggins
born Salem, Oregon, 1869; died Seattle, Washington, 1956
In the 1910s, Wiggins once again began to focus on painting building an international reputation and coming to be known as the “Dean of Northwest Women Painters.” She had one-person exhibitions in New York, Chicago, and New Orleans and helped found the Women Painters of Washington. Seattle Art Museum held a major retrospective exhibition of her paintings and photographs in 1953 followed by the De Young Museum, San Francisco the following year.
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- Salem
- Seattle
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born Ogdensburg, New York, 1869; died New York City, New York, 1943
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Salish member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation; born St. Ignatius Indian Mission, Flathead Reservation, MT 1940
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