Emma Cheves Wilkins (1870–1956) was an American painter who played a major role in the art scene in Savannah, Georgia during the early twentieth century.
She was a lifelong resident of Savannah, Georgia and inherited the artistic talents of her mother and grandmother.
[3] Alongside her mother in the 1890s, Wilkins taught art lessons at a studio in Savannah as the market for her artwork extended.
As a self-sustaining artist, Wilkins painted portraits of judges, politicians, bankers, doctors, and to a lesser extent of women and children.
The pair lived at the American Girls' Club for a few months and were enrolled in Gustave-Claude-Etienne Courtois and Louis-Auguste Girardot's classes for foreigners at the Académie Colarossi.