11 Notable alumni of Art Academy of Cincinnati
Updated: June 13, 2026 EliteDegrees
Art Academy of Cincinnati is ranked #6,147 in the world and #1,608 in United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 11 notable alumni from Art Academy of Cincinnati sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with Art Academy of Cincinnati won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. Maud Hunt Squire
1873-1954 (aged 81)
painter
visual artist
illustrator
Maud Hunt Squire was an American painter and printmaker. She had a lifelong relationship with artist Ethel Mars, with whom she traveled and lived in the United States and France.
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2. John Ellsworth Weis
1892-1962 (aged 70)
painter
John Ellsworth Weis was an American painter.
3. Louise Lawson
artist
sculptor
Louise Lawson was a Neoclassical sculptor and one of the first American women sculptors to have a professional career.
4. Ethel Mars
1876-1959 (aged 83)
painter
printmaker
illustrator
xylographer
Ethel Mars was an American woodblock print artist, known for her white-line woodcut prints, also known as Provincetown Prints, and a children's book illustrator. She had a lifelong relationship with fellow artist Maud Hunt Squire, with whom she lived in Paris and Provincetown, Massachusetts.
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5. Will Henry Stevens
1881-1949 (aged 68)
painter
Will Henry Stevens was an American modernist painter and naturalist. Stevens is known for his paintings and tonal pastels depicting the rural Southern landscape, abstractions of nature, and non-objective works. His paintings are in the collections of over forty museums in the US, including the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the North Carolina Museum...
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6. Jim Flora
1914-1998 (aged 84)
writer
painter
children's writer
wood carver
James Royer Flora was an American artist best known for his distinctive and idiosyncratic album cover art for RCA Victor and Columbia Records during the 1940s and 1950s. He was also a prolific commercial illustrator from the 1940s to the 1970s, and the author and illustrator of 17 popular children's books. As a fine artist, he created hundreds of paintings,...
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7. Janet Scudder
1869-1940 (aged 71)
writer
sculptor
suffragist
artist
Janet Scudder, born Netta Deweze Frazee Scudder, was an American sculptor and painter from Terre Haute, Indiana, who is best known for her memorial sculptures, bas-relief portraiture, and portrait medallions, as well as her garden sculptures and fountains. Her first major commission was the design for the seal of the New York Bar Association around 1896. Scudder's Frog Fountain (1901)...
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8. John Ruthven
1924-2020 (aged 96)
painter
John Aldrich Ruthven was an American artist best known for his paintings of wildlife.
9. Enid Yandell
1869-1934 (aged 65)
artist
sculptor
Enid Yandell was an American sculptor from Louisville, Kentucky, who studied with Auguste Rodin in Paris, Philip Martiny in New York City, and Frederick William MacMonnies.
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10. Richard F. Outcault
1863-1928 (aged 65)
screenwriter
painter
comics artist
photographer
Richard Felton Outcault was an American cartoonist. He was the creator of the series The Yellow Kid and Buster Brown and is considered a key pioneer of the modern comic strip.
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11. Elizabeth Nourse
1859-1938 (aged 79)
painter
illustrator
sculptor
artist
engraver
Elizabeth Nourse was a realist-style genre, portrait, and landscape painter born in Mt. Healthy, Ohio, in the Cincinnati area. She also worked in decorative painting and sculpture. Described by her contemporaries as "the first woman painter of America" and "the dean of American woman painters in France and one of the most eminent contemporary artists of her sex," Nourse was...
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