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Willoughby Ions (1881–1977) was an American composer, artist, poet and dramatist. She was also an art administrator for the
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Willoughby Ions (1881–1977) was an American composer, artist, poet and dramatist. She was also an art administrator for the Federal Art Project
The Federal Art Project (1935–1943) was a New Deal program to fund the visual arts in the United States. Under national director Holger Cahill, it was one of five Federal Project Number One projects sponsored by the Works Progress Administrati ...
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Born Estelle de Willoughby Ions in , she was married twice.
She wrote the play ''The Age of Innocents'' and the opera ''All in a Golden Springtime''.
She was a member of the Equal Suffrage League of Virginia
The Equal Suffrage League of Virginia was founded in 1909 in Richmond, Virginia. Like many similar organizations in other states, the league's goal was to secure voting rights for women. When the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified ...
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She was a partner of Adèle Clark, who was her first cousin.
Some of her artworks are held at the National Gallery of Art. Her papers are held at the Virginia Historical Society
The Virginia Museum of History and Culture founded in 1831 as the Virginia Historical and Philosophical Society and headquartered in Richmond, Virginia, is a major repository, research, and teaching center for Virginia history. It is a private, n ...
. In 1964, she was interviewed as part of an oral history project by the Archives of American Art
The Archives of American Art is the largest collection of primary resources documenting the history of the visual arts in the United States. More than 20 million items of original material are housed in the Archives' research centers in Washingt ...
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