[1] She was one of the few African American artists in France, a turning point of her career and profession where she attained widespread attention, exhibited in Paris, won awards,[2] and spent the next 30 years teaching art at Cheyney University in Pennsylvania.

In 1914 Laura Wheeler-Waring was granted a trip to Europe by the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts’ William E. Cresson Memorial Scholarship.

She painted Le Parc Du Luxembourg (1918), oil on canvas, based on a sketch she made during one of her recurrent visits.

"[2] Wheeler-Waring planned on traveling more to Switzerland, Italy, Germany, and the Netherlands, but her trip was cut short when war was declared in Europe.

There she spent her time creating illustrations of short travel stories and figurative pen and ink drawings for the Crisis Magazine.

[2] Waring continued her studies at the Chaumière and stayed in the Villa de Villiers in Neuilly-sur-Seine in the spring of 1925, where she documented her artistic progress.

Houses at Semur, France (1925), oil on canvas, has been noted by art historians the painting that marked Waring's change in style.

Her use of vivid color, light, and atmosphere in this work is characteristic of the style she established after this trip to Europe and which she continued throughout her career.

[6] She was commissioned by the Harmon Foundation to do portraits of prominent African Americans and chose some associated with the Harlem Renaissance.

In addition to painting, Waring wrote and illustrated a short story with close friend and novelist, Jessie Redmon Fauset.

She, Allan R. Freelon and Henry B. Jones provided artwork for an exhibition by the Negro Study Club at the Berean School in 1930.

[8] The Metropolitan Museum of Art's 2024 exhibit, The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism, reintroduced Waring's work to a new audience.

[9] Waring's painting, Girl with Pomegranate, is used as the cover image for the exhibit's catalogue edited by Denise Murrell.

[12] Waring's work was included in the 2015 exhibition rip to her We Speak: Black Artists in Philadelphia, 1920s-1970s at the Woodmere Art Museum.