"[1] Her mother Candace Wheeler was an author, artist/designer, entrepreneur, and a nationally known expert on decorative textiles and interiors, celebrated for championing women as artists and designers.

[3] Dora attended a Quaker school on Stuyvesant Square and subsequently "Miss Haines and Mlle.

de Janon's", a New York finishing school on Grammercy Park near the Wheelers' town house.

They spent summers in Montreux, Switzerland, and at Luc sur Mer, on the French coast.

[14] Family friends in Dora's youth included Frederic Edwin Church, Sanford Gifford, Jervis McEntee, John Frederick Kensett, John Lafarge, Worthington Whittredge, Albert Bierstadt, George Inness and J. Alden Weir.

[15] As a young lady in New York, Dora received private instruction from artist William Merritt Chase, from 1879 to 1881.

"[18] In subsequent years Dora Wheeler and Chase periodically worked together, for instance collaborating on a series of theatrical tableaux at Madison Square Garden to raise funds for the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty in 1884; she also served on the Executive Board of Chase's Shinnecock Hills school.

[23] During the 1880s Wheeler enjoyed success as a book and magazine illustrator, and published chromolithographs in Art Amateur.

[26] During the 1880s, Dora Wheeler also embarked on a series of portraits of the leading literary lights of her time, including Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frank Stockton, William Dean Howells, Charles Dudley Warner, and Walt Whitman.

Chase painted his portrait of Dora in her 23rd Street studio against a shimmering gold silk backdrop, possibly one of the Associated Artists' embroidered fabrics.

[41] She also painted portraits of many celebrated visitors on the east wall of Pennyroyal; only her chalk drawing of Mark Twain has survived renovations.

[29] Her needlewoven tapestries showing Minnehaha, the Winged Moon, and The Birth of Psyche, hung in a London exhibition of American Art with John Lafarge stained glass windows.

[21] Little is left of the tapestries and nothing known of possible surviving elements of the Chicago mural, for which Dora Wheeler Keith was most famous in her day, that may have escaped the Albany fire of 1911.

[21][45] Mary Dow Brine, My Boy and I, or, On the Road to Slumberland (Cambridge: University Press, J. Wilson and son, 1881).

Candace Wheeler, Prize Painting Book: Good Times (New York: White and Stokes, 1881).