Betsy Graves Reyneau
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Betsy Graves Reyneau (1888-1964) was an American painter, best known for a series of paintings of prominent African Americans for the exhibition “Portraits of Outstanding Americans of Negro Origin” that, with those by Laura Wheeler Waring and under the Harmon Foundation, toured the United States from 1944 to 1954.
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Lottie Wilson JacksonAlso won Michigan Women's Hall of FameHelen MillikenAlso won Michigan Women's Hall of Fame
Emma J. ColeAlso won Michigan Women's Hall of Fame
Sharon SuttonAlso won Michigan Women's Hall of Fame
Ruth ThompsonAlso won Michigan Women's Hall of Fame
Cora Reynolds AndersonAlso won Michigan Women's Hall of FameAbout this person
Betsy Graves Reyneau (1888-1964) was an American painter, best known for a series of paintings of prominent African Americans for the exhibition “Portraits of Outstanding Americans of Negro Origin” that, with those by Laura Wheeler Waring and under the Harmon Foundation, toured the United States from 1944 to 1954. A granddaughter of Michigan Supreme Court Justice Benjamin F. Graves, Reyneau's sitters included Mary McLeod Bethune, George Washington Carver, Joe Louis, and Thurgood Marshall. Reyneau's portrait of Carver, the most famous, was the first of an African American to enter a national American collection.
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