Ida Josephine Burgess

Ida Josephine Burgess (January 5, 1855 – 1934) was an American artist known for her paintings, murals, and stained glass.

She studied at Cooper Union and the Art Students League of New York where her teachers included Walter Shirlaw and William Merritt Chase.

She continued her studies in France, eventually exhibiting at the Paris Salon in 1885.

[2] She subsequently decorated parts of Lunt Hall Library (now the Department of Mathematics building) at Northwestern University, specifically the entrance hall, the book room, and the reading room.

She was a member of the Chicago Society of Artists, the New York Women's Art Club, the National Association of Women Artists, Painters, Sculptors, and the Pen and Brush Club, New York.