Caroline M. Bell

Caroline "Dolly" Martha Bell (1874–1970) was an American artist and educator, who painted water and landscape scenes mostly around the Peconic region of Long Island, New York. She, along with other local female artists would often paint impressionist type paintings together.

Early life Caroline Martha Bell was born on September 1, 1874, in New York City, Bell studied with artists Edward Bell (no relation) and Whitney Hubbard both in Woodstock and on Long Island. Bell and her group would often participate in plein-air painting when they traveled around these areas. Though most of Bell's work primarily revolves around the New England area, she has also made trips to Europe as well. and continued to travel and paint together. Hawkins and Bell even continued to grow as artists together and take classes with Emile Gruppe and Anthony Thieme in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Today, Bell's paintings are still used in exhibitions in many Long Island museums and Galleries.

A few of the artist clubs that Bell belonged too were: