Willoughby Ions
Willoughby Ions (1881-1977) was an American composer, artist, poet and dramatist. She was an Art administrator for the Federal Art Project.
Born Estelle de Willoughby Ions in New Orleans, she was married twice.[1] She wrote the play The Age of Innocents and the opera All in a Golden Springtime. She was a member of the Equal Suffrage League of Virginia.[2] She was a partner of Adèle Clark, who was her first cousin.[3][1]
Some of her artworks are held at the National Gallery of Art.[4] Her papers are held at the Virginia Historical Society.[1] In 1964 she was interviewed as part of an oral history project by the Archives of American Art.[5]
References
- ^ a b c "Goodman Family". Virginia Historical Society. Retrieved 16 April 2020.
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- ^ Lesbian and Gay Richmond. Arcadia Publishing. 2008. ISBN 978-0-7385-5368-9.
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{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Oral history interview with Willoughby Ions, 1964 Mar. 11". www.aaa.si.edu. Retrieved 2020-04-16.
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