VHarris Writes

Laura Wheeler Waring was one of several prolific African American artists to illustrate The Brownies' Book, an early magazine (1920-21) created exclusively for "the children of the sun"... Here is Waring's Halloween tableau illustrating a poem for the season...

“Dear Miss Wheeler, I am returning herewith one of the pictures which you made for Jessie Fauset’s story…. “ Laura’s work as an...

Laura Wheeler Waring was one of the first women artists to regularly contribute illustrations to The Crisis magazine.

Laura Wheeler Waring begins a long association with W.E.B. DuBois as an illustrator for The Crisis magazine.

Settling into her summer sojourn, Laura began plotting her version of the grand tour. “From Paris I intended to go to Geneva and then to...

Although Laura was now in Paris independent of her Academy classmates, she was not alone for long. Visiting Paris at the time were two...