Date Original
1925
Description
This collection contains correspondence between Jenny Deloney Rice-Meyrowitz and Arkansas History Commission Director Dallas Herndon.
Biographical/Historical Note
Jenny Eakin Deloney Rice was the first woman from Arkansas to gain notoriety as a successful painter in the United States and internationally. She was born in Washington, Arkansas, on May 13, 1866, to Alchuny Turner Deloney and Elizabeth Lawson Pearson Delony. The Deloney family moved to Nashville, Arkansas, in 1885 and to Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1890. Rice attended Wesleyan Female Institute, Cincinnati Academy of Art, and St. Louis School of Art. She established her first professional art studio in 1891 in Little Rock. Her second studio in Little rock in 1897 was located at the Masonic Temple on Main Street. Rice later taught art at Virginia Female Institute in Roanoke, Virginia, and Norfolk College for Young Ladies in Norfolk, Virginia. She was the first Director of Art for the Arkansas Industrial University, which later became the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. She founded the art department there and the first baccalaureate art program in the state. Rice moved to New York in 1900; however she returned to Little Rock around 1935. She died on April 1, 1949.
Physical Description
Document, 8.5" x 11"
Geographical Area
Arkansas
Language
English
Identifier
SMC.125.025
Resource Type
Text
Collection
Jenny Deloney Rice-Meyrowitz letters, SMC.125.025
Publisher
Arkansas State Archives
Contributing Entity
Arkansas State Archives
Recommended Citation
Jenny Deloney Rice-Meyrowitz letters, Arkansas State Archives, Little Rock, Arkansas.
Rights
Use and reproduction of images held by the Arkansas State Archives without prior written permission is prohibited. For information on reproducing images held by the Arkansas State Archives, please call 501-682-6900 or email at state.archives@arkansas.gov.
Disciplines
United States History
