Nancy Douglas Bowditch (July 4, 1890 – May 1, 1979) was an American artist, author, costumer and set designer.

The daughter of painter George de Forest Brush, she produced a biography of him in 1970, and her own memoirs published posthumously.

[9] The Brush family interacted with ʻAbdu'l-Bahá and the Baháʼís in the area in July and August 1912, especially during an annual out-of-doors play as well he visited their farm.

She then credits Randall, Louise Drake Wright and her sister Mrs. George Nelson as aiding her inquiry into the religion while she read books like Baháʼu'lláh and the New Era.

[1] She was visible in the 1930 Race Amity Convention held at Green Acre,[16] by then an established conference center of the religion, and left on Baháʼí pilgrimage in late March 1931 with her then 19 yr old daughter.

Bowditch repeated her activity at the Green Acre Race Amity conference in 1934[20] including an event at her home.

[26] There is a break in visible activity in 1940 and her father died April 24, 1941,[1] but she was again involved at Green Acre in July 1941 for a pageant.

[31] In Teaneck, New Jersey she offered a program for youth on dramatizations of the religion,[32] and her poem "The Song of Tahirih" was published in July 1947 World Order .

[37] In 1953 Bowditch was noted helping a Portsmouth community pageant,[38] and her family moved to Peterborough, New Hampshire in the south of the state in 1959,[39] attended the 1963 Baháʼí World Congress with her husband and a granddaughter,[1] and in 1965 Bowditch is pictured on the first local Spiritual Assembly of Brookline, the local administrative organization of the religion.

[40] Harold died in August 1964 and their home at 12 Pine Street became the official Baháʼí Center of the community in 1967 at which Guy Murchie gave a talk for the opening ceremony.

[45] In 1972 she was noted by Portsmouth Friends of the Library,[46] spoke at Meriden, Connecticut on her memory of meeting ʻAbdu'l-Bahá,[47] and aided in costumes for play at Keene State College.