Wenonah Day Bell (1890–1981) was an American painter known for depictions of rural life in the southern United States and urban scenes of New York.
[2][3] Her diverse education included lessons at the Académie Colarossi in Paris, the Hans Hoffmann School of Fine Arts in Munich and Capri, and at Teachers College, Columbia University.
[3] Bell taught art for a time at Bergen Junior College,[4] and for nearly thirty years lived in New York City, where she was on the faculty of the Parsons School of Design.
[1] In addition to teaching and painting, she also penned a memoir, The Restless Bells, documenting her family's history from Reconstruction through World War II.
[6] Another oil, Peach Packing, Spartanburg County of 1938, is owned by the Johnson Collection of art of the southern United States.