Willie Betty Newman

American (1863-1935)

Born in Murfreesboro, Tennessee in 1864, painter Willie Betty Newman studied at the Art Academy of Cincinnati under Thomas Satterwhite Noble and at the Academie Julian in Paris under Jean-Joseph Benjamin Constant, Tony Robert Fleury, Adolph-William Bouguereau, Gustave Boulanger and Jean-Paul Laurens.

Specializing in genre scenes of French peasant life, a pervasive spiritual quality characterizes Newman’s work. Newman exhibited at the Paris Salon, Paris Exhibition in 1900 and throughout the United States including in the 1904 Universal Exhibition in St. Louis. Newman’s work is held in the Neville-Strass Collection as well as in collections in the Cincinnati Art Museum, University of Mississippi, Vanderbilt University and at the United States Capitol Building in Washington, D.C.