Da Loria Norman, Shipwreck, ca. 1920, pen and ink and watercolor on paperboard, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Cynthia A. Norman, 1979.139

Da Loria Norman (1872-1935) was an American artist. Norman was noted for painting and for her illumination of books and images, and partnered with leading English artists such as Walter Crane. One of her most significant commissions was the illumination of "Ecclesiastes and the Song of Solomon", a Ballantyne Press vellum edition designed by Charles Ricketts, for the Spencer Bequest of the New York Public Library.[1]

Born Belle Mitchell in Kansas, she moved to England during her childhood, where she married, had children, and began her artistic career. Belle's marriage was not a happy one, and she left her husband several times with her children to live with her friend.


  1. ^ "A Passenger to Remember: Introducing the Spencer Collection". www.nypl.org. Retrieved 2020-03-25.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)