Leila T. Bauman (active c. 1855–1870) was an American painter. Almost nothing is known of her life. Bauman is known to have come from Verona, New Jersey, near

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, but a search of genealogical and other records has as yet provided no further information about her life and career. It is possible that she worked for Currier and Ives at some point. Two oil-on-canvas river landscapes in the Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch Collection in the

National Gallery of Art The National Gallery of Art, and its attached Sculpture Garden, is a national art museum in Washington, D.C., United States, located on the National Mall, between 3rd and 9th Streets, at Constitution Avenue NW. Open to the public and free of char ...

are currently her only known paintings. One is titled ''Geese in Flight'', and the other ''U.S. Mail Boat''; internal evidence dates the two paintings to the 1850s, and suggests that they were inspired by views around the New York City area. ''Geese in Flight'' was included in the inaugural exhibition of the

National Museum of Women in the Arts The National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA), located in Washington, D.C., is "the first museum in the world solely dedicated" to championing women through the arts. NMWA was incorporated in 1981 by Wallace and Wilhelmina Holladay. Since openin ...

, ''American Women Artists 1830–1930'', in 1987.

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American folk artists 19th-century American painters 19th-century American women painters Women outsider artists People from Verona, New Jersey Painters from New Jersey Year of birth unknown Year of death unknown Year of birth uncertain {{US-painter-stub