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Painting
c. 1600s Sarah Kiersted, 17th century, a 1936 painting of Kiersted with Chief Oratam.
1822 Painting of a scrubwomen by Baroness Hyde de Neuville (Anne Marguerite Henriette de Marigny Hyde de Neuville, unknown -1849).
1845 The Lincoln Children, a portrait painted by Susan Waters.
1866 Lily Martin Spencer (1822-1902) painting, "War Spirit at Home," one of the most popular paintings of the mid-19th century.
1900 Violet Oakley, an important American muralist, was born in Bergen Heights in 1874. She trained at the Arts Students League, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the Academie Montparnasse in Paris. Oakley created oil paintings, illustrations, stained glass windows and murals. The “Unity” frieze expresses her vision of a peaceful world. She was a pacifist and feminist.
1927 Elsie Driggs, a resident of Lambertville, New Jersey was the only woman artist who participated in the Precisionist Movement in American art, 1927.
1938 American abstract painter, Suzy Frelinghuysen (1911-1988), 1938.
1995 Grace Hartigan, abstract expressionist, 1995.