Martha E. Simkins (1866–1969) was an American painter, based in Texas, known for her depictions of interiors with figures, still lifes and portraits.
There she studied with several influential and highly regarded American Impressionist painters including Kenyon Cox, Emil Carlsen and William Merritt Chase.
[7] In 1925, with higher demand for her portraits, she stayed in the Northeast year round and decided to spend her winters in New York and return to Woodstock each summer.
[1] Simkins moved back to Texas permanently in 1934, where she was given more portrait commissions, taught art students, including James Brooks,[8] and entered her work in exhibitions there.
[3][6] Simkins remained in Texas because of her mother's illness and other family obligations and continued to be an active artist in the Dallas area for most of the remainder of her long life.