Daisy Marguerite Hughes (1883–1968) was an American painter and lithographer.

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A native of Los Angeles, California and born in 1883. Hughes studied with

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, Rudolph Schaeffer, and Channel Pickering Townsley. Groups to which she belonged included the

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, the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors, the American Federation of Arts, the California Art Club, the California Watercolor Society, and the Provincetown Art Association. She also studied at the

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for a time in the 1920s. She exhibited locally in Los Angeles and taught art in the public school system. A collection of her papers is in the Archives of American Art. Her painting “Wrecking Old Chinatown” (1951) was featured in the exhibition, ''Something Revealed: California Women Artists Emerge, 1860-1960'' at Pasadena Museum of History in 2019.

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1883 births 1968 deaths American women printmakers 20th-century American painters 20th-century American printmakers 20th-century American women painters American lithographers Painters from Los Angeles Art Students League of New York alumni Women lithographers 20th-century lithographers {{US-painter-1880s-stub