# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/laura-wheeler-waring
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:59:16.125Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/laura-wheeler-waring"
name: "Laura Wheeler Waring"
slug: "laura-wheeler-waring"
description: "Laura Wheeler Waring was an African-American artist and educator, most renowned for her realistic portraits, landscapes, still-life, and well-known African American portraitures she made during the Harlem Renaissance. She was one of the few African American artists in France, a turning point of her career and profession where she attained widespread attention, exhibited in Paris, won awards, and spent the next 30 years teaching art at Cheyney University in Pennsylvania."
tagline: "African American painter (1887-1948)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c1/Photo_of_Laura_Wheeler_Waring.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1887-05-16"
deathDate: "1948-02-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.74
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.577073333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A7_%D9%88%DB%81%DB%8C%D9%84%D8%B1_%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%86%DA%AF"
    title: "لورا وہیلر وارنگ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Wheeler_Waring"
    title: "Laura Wheeler Waring"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://dag.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Wheeler_Waring"
    title: "Laura Wheeler Waring"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Wheeler_Waring"
    title: "Laura Wheeler Waring"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Wheeler_Waring"
    title: "Laura Wheeler Waring"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Wheeler_Waring"
    title: "Laura Wheeler Waring"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Wheeler_Waring"
    title: "Laura Wheeler Waring"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Wheeler_Waring"
    title: "Laura Wheeler Waring"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Wheeler_Waring"
    title: "Laura Wheeler Waring"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%80_%D0%A3%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B3%2C_%D0%9B%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B0"
    title: "Уилер Уоринг, Лора"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13560759"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump