Bessie Wheeler
Bessie Wheeler, Flower Lei Seller, c. 1900
Bessie Wheeler was a painter about whom little is known, other than that she was born in 1876.[1] She painted portraits of people encountered on the streets of Honolulu around 1900.[2] She contributed illustrations to Thrum's Hawaiian Annual and was a member of the Kilohana Art League.[3]
Footnotes
- ↑ Severson, 2002
- ↑ Severson, 2002
- ↑ Thrum's Hawaiian Annual, Honolulu, Thos. C. Thrum, 1900, p. 122
References
- Severson, Don R. Finding Paradise: Island Art in Private Collections, University of Hawaii Press, 2002, pp. 104–5.