Louise Norton (June 19, 1888 – September 6, 1941) was a Kansas City-born American artist who was a founding member of the arts colony in Tucson, Arizona, in the early part of the twentieth century.
Her paintings were exhibited at the New Mexico Museum of Fine Art at Santa Fe, in Kansas City, New York, Washington and throughout Arizona.
She was responsible for setting up and organizing women’s work projects under the WPA in Cochise, Santa Cruz, Pima and Pinal counties.
[2] After a multi-month illness Norton died on September 6, 1941, at her home in Tucson, Arizona, located at 346 East Speedway Boulevard in the West University Historic District.
[2] Her work is in the permanent collection of the National Gallery in Washington D.C. She was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta and the Altrusa Club.