Maria Howard Weeden, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Maria Howard Weeden

American artist and poet

Date of Birth: 06-Jul-1846

Place of Birth: Huntsville, Alabama, United States

Date of Death: 12-Apr-1905

Profession: poet, watercolourist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Maria Howard Weeden (July 6, 1846 – April 12, 1905), who signed her work and published as Howard Weeden, was an American artist and poet based in Huntsville, Alabama.
After the American Civil War, she began to sell works she painted, which included portraits of many African-American freedmen and freedwomen.
She exhibited her work in Berlin and Paris in 1895, where it was well received.
She published four books of her poetry from 1898 to 1904, illustrated with her own art.
She was posthumously inducted into the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame in 1998.