Cherry, Emma Louise Isabel Richardson
(1859 Aurora, Illinois-1954 Houston, Texas)

Also known as Emma Louise Isabel Richardson

Although Texas claims her as “Dean of Houston Art,” and the state's "first modern artist" (Glasstire), Nebraska earns special attention because it is the place of her earliest professional years. From 1880 to 1888, she was art instructor in Lincoln at the University of Nebraska School of Fine Arts. But unlike Texas where she received major public attention and financial security, Nebraska at first offered only studio space for painting and resume-building teaching experience but no salary. There by age 21, she was the first woman art instructor at the University of Nebraska, and replaced Frank Stat...