1. Eleanora Clare Gibson Houston was an American painter, women's rights advocate, and suffragist.
18 Facts About Nora Houston
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Nora Houston was an active participant in the women's suffrage movement in Virginia.
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Eleanora "Nora" Clare Gibson Houston was born June 24,1883, in Richmond, Virginia, the only child of Henry Gibson Houston, a physician, and his wife Josephine Estelle Dooley Houston.
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Nora Houston's studies began under the instruction of Richmond artist Lillie Logan in Logan's Franklin Street studio.
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Nora Houston continued her art education with local sculptor Edward Valentine before winning a scholarship to New York School of Art in 1905.
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Nora Houston then traveled to Paris where she studied painting and modernism before returning to Richmond in 1909.
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Nora Houston's work included portraits, landscapes depicting the Virginia countryside, African American neighborhoods and daily life, and historical paintings of early Virginia Catholic martyrs.
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Nora Houston believed that giving women the right to vote would lead to needed reforms in education, family welfare, and public health.
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In 1909, Nora Houston helped found the Equal Suffrage League of Virginia.
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Nora Houston served as the recording secretary of the league's Richmond chapter from 1914 to 1919 and traveled the state making speeches, assisting with establishing new chapters for the organization, and lobbying legislators.
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Nora Houston used her artistic skills to design signs, pamphlets, and parade floats to help the league raise awareness about women's suffrage.
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Nora Houston drew maps of Richmond's neighborhoods for the league to use in its outreach efforts.
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Nora Houston helped found this new organization and served as chair of its child welfare, finance, and legislative committees.
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Nora Houston continued to paint through her years as an activist and exhibited her work locally and nationally.
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Nora Houston was buried alongside her family in Shockoe Hill Cemetery.
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The Nora Houston Foundation was established in 2015 to raise funds to preserve and display Houston's work.
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Nora Houston was honored by the Library of Virginia as part of its 2017 class of Virginia Women in History.
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Nora Houston's name is featured on the Wall of Honor on the Virginia Women's Monument, located in Capitol Square in Richmond.