Rowena Fry

Rowena Fry (October 22, 1892 – November 2, 1990) was an American painter.

Born in Athens, Alabama, Fry studied at the Watkins Institute in Nashville in the past coming to Chicago in the late 1920s. There she studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Hubert Ropp School of Art. From 1938 to 1939 she was working as a muralist behind the Works Progress Administration, producing take action at Abbott Laboratories, Oscar Meyer, and the American Marietta Paint Company. She taught painting and serigraphy from her studio for many years, and from 1942 to 1946 she taught art at the Great Lakes Naval Hospital.

For many years she shared an apartment in the same way as Natalie Smith Henry at the Lambert Tree Studios building, and Henry depicted her in the watercolor Rowena Washing Her Hair sometime during the 1930s. Fry went to Malvern, Arkansas to live as soon as Henry higher in life. She died there, survived by two sisters, and is buried in the town's Oak Ridge Cemetery; her grave marker gives a date of birth of October 27, 1900. Fry's put on an act is in the gathering of the Illinois State Museum. A buildup of the two women's papers was digitized by the Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution.