[1] Born in Santo Domingo and daughter to former president Alejandro Woss y Gil, she was 12 years old when her family left the country in exile after her father's second presidential term ended in 1903.

[1] In August 1942, Woss y Gil joined the newly established National School of Fine Arts as founding faculty along with artists Josep Gausachs, George Hausdorf, José Vela Zanetti, and Manolo Pascual, later becoming the director.

[4] Woss y Gill's post-impressionistic art style shows depictions of a wide range of subjects, most popularly female nudes, portraits, and scenes of Dominican pictorial life.

[6] Woss y Gil played an important role in the woman's suffrage movement in the Dominican Republic that won women the right to vote during the Rafael Trujillo dictatorship.

In 1927, she along with Abigaíl Mejía, Delia Weber, Trina de Moya, Ana Josefa Puello, and other artists and educators founded Nosotras Club, the first feminist organization in the country, which advocated for woman's liberation and the betterment of children.

[8] The organization pursued Dominican women's right to vote, and launched a feminist manifesto in 1931, claiming the right to gender equality in the country's Constitution.

[1] The background of the image displays working people going about their everyday lives, as well as children playing beneath a Arecaceae palm tree and a blue sky.