Josephine Miles Lewis

In her childhood and young adulthood her father, Henry Gould Lewis, was the mayor of New Haven for four terms.

[2] The Yale School of Art was one of the few at the University open to women as well as men, on the request of donor Augustus Russell Street.

As a result, women made up a high percentage of the school's attendees, though Lewis was the first to graduate with a degree from the School of Art, earning a certificate in 1887 and a bachelor's in fine arts in 1891.

[3][4] Lewis spent the five years after her graduation studying Impressionist art in Paris and Giverny, along with her sister Matilda.

[5] Lewis split her professional life between New Haven, New York and Scituate, Massachusetts.