Bellis - Daisy Maud

Bellis, Daisy Maud (1887-?)

Daisy Maud Bellis was born in Waltham, Massachusetts on February 16, 1887. She studied art at the Massachusetts School of Art, the University of Vermont, Breckenridge School of Painting, and in schools and studios in Montreal and Paris. In 1936 she was elected as a Fellow at the Royal Society of Arts in London. Bellis taught art at Salem College, Winston Salem, North Carolina and at McDonald College, McGill University Montreal, Canada. She painted approximately 80 easel paintings for the WPA Federal Arts Project. Her works were allocated to the Laurel Heights, Undercliff, and Cedarcrest Sanatoria, the Connecticut State Farm for Women at Niantic, the Middlesex County Temporary Home, and Fairfield Hills Hospital. Bellis also led art instruction courses sponsored by the WPA. Her date of death is unknown.

Sources: WPA Artist’s Work Card; WPA Biography; Who Was Who in American Art (1985), p. 45; Women Artists in America; Edward Alden Jewell, “Musings Way Down east,” New York Times, August 27, 1933.

Works of Art Listed in CT Archives’ database from Daisy Bellis:

Bellis, Daisy Maud