biografia di Martha Jefferson G. WESTFELDT (1884-1960)

Birth place: New Orleans, LA

Death place: New Orleans, LA

Addresses: New Orleans, active 1916-25

Profession: Craftsperson, bookbinder, potter

Studied: Newcomb College; Alfred Univ., NYC

Exhibited: New Orleans AA, 1916-18

Comments: Civic leader and art patron who was also a pottery maker. During World War II she gave the profits from her novelty shop to the French Resistance. Patrick McLoskey Westfeldt (see entry) was her husband's uncle.

Sources: Encyclopaedia of New Orleans Artists, 410.