VHarris Writes

The movement to preserve Black Heritage Sites is underway in Philadelphia! Storytelling and Biography as Cultural Preservation

Is it your painting, Laura? “Dear Ms. Harris, My mother moved to a senior facility prior to passing away in 2016. In downsizing, some of her pictures were moved into a storage space, then to an empty room in my house following her passing. Now retired, I am finally going through the rest of my mother’s things. I believe this painting to be a Wheeler Waring. On the back of the frame was a taped “tag” that is so old that it fell off as I tried to view it. Any guidance you can

While still in her teens, Laura Wheeler determined to leave Hartford for study at the Portrait of Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859-1937) by Thomas Eakins (1844-1916) Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, believing that if she were to have a chance at success, it would have its genesis there. The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, housed in its grand and colorful Gothic revival-styled building on Philadelphia's Broad Street, was at that time the most prestigious institution of its kind in