Josephine Hiett Joy was born near Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, in 1869 and soon thereafter her family moved to Peoria, Illinois. After an early marriage that ended in divorce, she went to Chicago and subsequently married Frank Joy. She became interested in painting after they moved to San Diego. A prolific worker, she became a WPA artist in the late 1930s, which led to her first solo exhibition at the Galerie St. Etienne in New York City in 1943. Joy died in Peoria in 1948.
In Collection: Works Progress Administration (WPA) Art (View all 421)
Marguerite Redman Dorgeloh (American, 1890–1944)
Jolan Gross Bettelheim (Hungarian, 1900–1972)
Dox Thrash (American, 1893–1965)
Myron Kozman (American, 1916 - 2002)
Julia Rogers (American, 20th Century)
Nan Lurie (American, 1910–1985)
Luis Arenal (Mexican, 1908-1985)
Edmund Lewandowski (American, 1914–1998)
Donald Forbes (American, 1905 - 1951)
Salvatore Pinto (American, 1905 - 1966)
Louis Lozowick (American, 1892-1973)
Yasuo Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1889 – 1953)
Moses Soyer (American, 1899 – 1974)
Dong Kingman (American, 1911 – 2000)