[1] Her mother was Emma Washburn (née Clark) was from Portland, Maine, from a family that descended from the Mayflower colonists.
[3][4] She grew up in Oakland, California; with a break from 1894 until 1896 to attended the Fort Wayne School for Girls in Portland, Maine.
[6] In 1915, Percy won a bronze medal for her lithographic print at the Panama Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco.
[13] Percy West's work is held in collections at Mills College Art Museum in Oakland, California.
[14] Percy West exhibited nationally in San Francisco, Philadelphia, Chicago, Hawaii and New York as well as internationally in Paris and Germany.