Margaret Ferguson Winner (1866 - December 21, 1937) was an illustrator, portrait painter, and

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. She was born and raised in Philadelphia and held a Fellowship at the

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. Musical composer

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was her father. As a painter, she completed 13 portraits for

Dickinson College , mottoeng = Freedom is made safe through character and learning , established = , type = Private liberal arts college , endowment = $645.5 million (2022) , president = J ...

. The paintings she did of Dickinson presidents hung in Old West and Bosler Hall. She painted a portrait of John Kirk McCurdy, a

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, that is part of the permanent collection at the

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in Washington D.C. She painted Supreme Court Justice

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, posthumously, and also painted a portrait of Dr. William Ruoff. She lived at 1706 North 16th Street. Her photograph appears in the book ''Septimus Winner: Two Lives in Music''. She was a member of the Art Alliance and Plastic Club.

Books she illustrated

*''Her Very Best'' (1901) by Amy E. Blanchard *''Dearie, Dot, and the Dog'' (1904) by Julie M. Lippmann *''Mistress Moppet'' (1904) by Annie M. Barnes

References

1866 births 1937 deaths American women illustrators 20th-century American women painters 20th-century American painters {{US-illustrator-stub