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Mary Elizabeth Nottingham Day
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'''Mary Elizabeth Nottingham Day''', known professionally during her life as '''Elizabeth Nottingham''', (1907-1956) was an artist and teacher.<ref>http://ift.tt/2HAUyhb> She preferred to paint outdoors and directly from nature, and was equally skilled in watercolor, ink, and oils.<ref>Bearss, Sara B., et al., ''Horace Talmage Day'', Dictionary of Virginia Biography Vol. 4, Richmond, Library of Virginia (2010).</ref>
She studied at [[Randolph-Macon Woman's College]], and from the late 1920s until 1931 studied at the [[Art Students League of New York]], and it was at the latter that she met [[Horace Day]].<ref>http://ift.tt/2FFyRjK>
In 1936 she became director of the Big Stone Gap Federal Art Gallery, and later that same year became director of the Lynchburg Federal Art Gallery.<ref>http://ift.tt/2HCDKX9> In 1940-1941 she was assistant state art supervisor of the [[Works Projects Administration]]'s extension service.<ref>http://ift.tt/2HCDKX9>
She married Horace Day in 1941.<ref>http://ift.tt/2HCDKX9>
She began teaching at [[Mary Baldwin College]] in 1941, and continued teaching there until she died in 1956.<ref>http://ift.tt/2FFySnO> She and Horace were co-directors of the college's art department.<ref>http://ift.tt/2HCntBs>
From 1950 until 1956 she sat on the State Art Commission.<ref>http://ift.tt/2HCDKX9>
She also was a board member and was president of the Virginia Art Alliance.<ref>http://ift.tt/2HCDKX9>
At the time of her death, she was gaining significant national recognition.<ref>Kuh, Katherine, ''Foreword: New Talent in the U.S.A.'', Art in America, Feb. 1956, p. 11.</ref>
In 2016, she was posthumously honored as one of the [[Virginia Women in History]].<ref>http://ift.tt/2pfiiRr>
==References==
[[Category:American painters]]
[[Category:American women painters]]
[[Category:Women painters]]
She studied at [[Randolph-Macon Woman's College]], and from the late 1920s until 1931 studied at the [[Art Students League of New York]], and it was at the latter that she met [[Horace Day]].<ref>http://ift.tt/2FFyRjK>
In 1936 she became director of the Big Stone Gap Federal Art Gallery, and later that same year became director of the Lynchburg Federal Art Gallery.<ref>http://ift.tt/2HCDKX9> In 1940-1941 she was assistant state art supervisor of the [[Works Projects Administration]]'s extension service.<ref>http://ift.tt/2HCDKX9>
She married Horace Day in 1941.<ref>http://ift.tt/2HCDKX9>
She began teaching at [[Mary Baldwin College]] in 1941, and continued teaching there until she died in 1956.<ref>http://ift.tt/2FFySnO> She and Horace were co-directors of the college's art department.<ref>http://ift.tt/2HCntBs>
From 1950 until 1956 she sat on the State Art Commission.<ref>http://ift.tt/2HCDKX9>
She also was a board member and was president of the Virginia Art Alliance.<ref>http://ift.tt/2HCDKX9>
At the time of her death, she was gaining significant national recognition.<ref>Kuh, Katherine, ''Foreword: New Talent in the U.S.A.'', Art in America, Feb. 1956, p. 11.</ref>
In 2016, she was posthumously honored as one of the [[Virginia Women in History]].<ref>http://ift.tt/2pfiiRr>
==References==
[[Category:American painters]]
[[Category:American women painters]]
[[Category:Women painters]]
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