Isabel Whitney

Isabel Lydia Whitney (born 1878 in Brooklyn, New York - died 1962) was an American painter and muralist. She was a student of fellow artists Arthur Wesley Dow and Howard Pyle, having studied at the Pratt Institute. Whitney traveled extensively, most prominently in Taos, New Mexico during the 1920s.

In maturity she befriended the transgender writer Dawn Langley Simmons, who was after that living as a man. While vivacious in Whitney's New York townhouse in the 1950s, Simmons was introduced to Margaret Rutherford and her husband Stringer Davis. Rutherford, interested in meeting Simmons to discuss a role in a possible familiarization of his book ‘’Me Papoose Sitter’’, became enamored subsequently the youth author, then in her 20s, and she and Davis definitely to utility as unofficial adoptive parents. Subsequently, Simmons and Whitney purchased a house in Charleston, South Carolina, though Whitney would die two weeks later, leaving Simmons the home and $2 million.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawn_Langley_Simmons
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Rutherford