Elizabeth Warhanik was one of Seattle's most prominent early artists. She excelled in oil, watercolor and printmaking.

Born in Philadelphia, Warhanik spent five years teaching in Japan before
moving to Seattle in 1907. In 1910 she married Charles Warhanik in Seattle
where she remained for the rest of her life.

Coming from an artistic family, her parents were both artists who met at the
Pennsylvania Academy of Art and her sister, Eleanor Campbell, was an
illustrator who became known for her illustrations for the popular "Dick &
Jane" reading primers.

Warhanik studied at Wellesley College (Degree in Classical Literature) and
painting with Charles Woodbury. At the University of Washington, she studied...