Nelly McKenzie Tolman

Nelly Summeril McKenzie Tolman (1877–1961) was an American painter.

Born in Salisbury, North Carolina, Nelly McKenzie traveled to Washington, D.C. to breakdown at the Corcoran School of Art. Among her instructors there was Ruel Pardee Tolman, whom she would go upon to marry. A specialist in miniature painting, she began functional in the discipline approximately 1926, and remained responsive for many years in local artistic circles. She belonged to the Miniature Painters, Gravers and Sculptors Society of Washington, the Washington Water Color Club, and the Arts Club of Washington, and exhibited regularly similar to each; she in addition to showed put-on at the Corcoran Gallery of Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and in imitation of the American Artists Professional League. She was in the middle of those artists included in the Greater Washington Independent Exhibition of 1935. Tolman died in Washington.

A portrait by Tolman, of artiste Bertha Jaques, is currently owned by the Smithsonian American Art Museum. A portrait of Elizabeth C. Wickersham is in the store of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.