Abby Williams Hill

Abby Williams Hill
Portrait of Abby Williams Hill, taken in Grinnell, Iowa.
Born
Abby Rhoda Williams

(1861-09-25)September 25, 1861
Grinnell, Iowa
DiedMay 14, 1943(1943-05-14) (aged 81)
San Diego, California
NationalityAmerican
EducationArt Student's League
Known forLandscape painting
SpouseFrank R. Hill
Children4

Abby Williams Hill (1861-1943) was an American plein-air painter most known for her landscapes of the American West.[1] Hill also advocated for children's rights, attended the 1905 Congress of Mothers in Washington, D.C., and founded the Washington (state) Parent-Teacher Association.[2]

Hills' painting of a gorge in Chelan County, Washington that was one of 24 of her paintings exhibited at the 1904 World's Fair.
  1. ^ Kovinick, Phil; Yoshiki-Kovinick, Marian (January 1998). An encyclopedia of women artists of the American West. American Studies. University of Texas Press. ISBN 9780292790636.
  2. ^ Hanson, Linda (June 30, 2005). "A century of advocating for children". Seattle Post Intelligencer. Retrieved 14 October 2013.