Her watercolor paintings of flowers were exhibited in American cities, mainly in the 1890s and 1900s.

She attended Cooper Union in the 1880s,[2] and earned a bachelor's degree in education from Teachers College, Columbia University in 1892,[3] She also studied at the Art Students' League and the Chase Art School.

[4] Her aunt, Emily Maria Scott, and Henry B. Snell were among her teachers.

[16] Later in life, she taught art at Southeastern High School in Detroit.

Her work is in the collection of Middlebury College Museum of Art.