Lucretia Blow Le Bourgeois Van Horn (1882–1970) 

Noted American artist. She was the first woman to be awarded the Concours Julian-Smith from the Académie Julian in Paris in 1904.

In 1926 she met Diego Rivera. As Rivera was finishing his mural project at the Ministry of Education in Mexico City, Mrs. Van Horn joined him and other artists in the production of the work. Rivera painted her face in one of the murals on the third floor of the building.

She also became a member of the San Francisco Art Association and the Society of Women Artists, won several notable awards, and was included in a major international retrospective at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco as one of thirty-five American artists.

In Washington she met Douglas MacArthur, who fell in love with her, as evidenced by a recently discovered cache of letters written to her by him.

Mrs. Van Horn’s artistic evolution went through at least three distinctive phases. Her early illustrations reflect her attraction to the work of Maxfield Parrish, her work of the late 1920s and 1930s are patterned on the images of Diego Rivera, and her later work was influenced by the European abstractionists, most especially her favorite, Paul Klee. (Wikipedia)