Delilah W. Pierce By Kelly-Christina Grant

American painter.

Delilah Williams Pierce was an active participant in the vibrant 20th-century art community of Washington, D.C. As was customary with many Black women artists of her generation, she divided her time between teaching and painting. She attended the U.S. capital’s Black institutions Dunbar High School, Miner Normal School and Howard University, from which she graduated in 1931 and later returned as a visiting professor (1968–1969). She also received an MA degree from Columbia University Teachers College, New York, in 1939. Until the 1970s, D. Pierce served as an art educator in public schools and at D.C. Teachers College in Washington, D.C. Her decades of teaching art and her efforts to advocate for her students and community made her an important figure on the art scene and the recipient of several awards during her lifetime, including the 1991 Women’s Caucus for Art of Greater Washington.

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