Maria Howard Weeden
Maria Howard Weeden (July 6, 1846 – April 12, 1905), who signed her work and published as
Howard Weeden, was an American artist and poet based in
Huntsville, Alabama. After the American Civil War, she began to sell works she painted, which included portraits of many African-American
freedmen and freedwomen. She exhibited her work in
Berlin and
Paris in 1895, where it was well received. She published four books of her poetry from 1898 to 1904, illustrated with her own art. She was posthumously inducted into the
Alabama Women's Hall of Fame in 1998.
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