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 Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, believing that if...