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Margaret Walthour Lippitt (November 5, 1872 – July 23, 1964) was an oil painter and art teacher. She was born in Clayton, Alabama, and raised in Savannah, Georgia. As a young woman, she taught art at a private girls' school in Tuscaloosa, where she lived with her grandfather, Major General Henry D. Clayton, then President of the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa.

Lippitt spent several years in Washington, DC, living with her aunt and uncle, Senator James L. Pugh, while she studied painting under Howard Helmick. While in another of Helmick's classes in Blowing Rock, North Carolina, Lippitt met her future husband, Devereux H. Lippitt, whom she married in 1894.

In 1898, Lippitt attended the Académie Julian. John Singer Sargent commented on her Titian hair when she was sketching at the Louvre. In 1904 she moved to Bremen for her husband's business. While there, she frequently visited the artists' colony at Worpswede and befriended Paula Modersohn-Becker and Rilke.

References

1. ^ "Foreword." Margaret Walthour Lippitt: A Retrospective Exhibition Catalogue. Margaret Walthour Lippitt Folder. North Carolina Women Artists Archive. Sloane Art Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
2. Caws, Mary Ann (8 August 2013). "The Artist as Fruit". London Review of Books. 35 (15): 16–17. Retrieved 18 January 2018.

• 1872 births
• 1964 deaths
• People from Clayton, Alabama
• Painters from Alabama
• 19th-century American painters
• 20th-century American painters
• 19th-century American women painters
• 20th-century American women painters
• American art educators
• American women educators