Elizabeth Nottingham Day

Mary Elizabeth Nottingham Day (November 29, 1907 – ) was a painter under the professional name Elizabeth Nottingham. She was primarily known for her work depicting the landscape of Virginia. With her husband, painter Horace Day, she co-directed the art department of Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, Virginia from 1941 to 1956.

Life and career Mary Elizabeth Nottingham was born on November 29, 1907, in Salisbury, North Carolina, and grew up in Culpeper, Virginia, a place she often depicted in her later work. She graduated from Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg, Virginia in 1928.

Nottingham attended the Art Students League of New York for three years, studying under George Bridgman, Kenneth Hayes Miller, Kimon Nicolaïdes, and John Sloan. She studied in Europe thanks to a Tiffany Foundation Fellowship (1930) and an Edward McDowell Traveling Fellowship (1931). In 1933, she returned to Virginia.

She became director of the Federal Art Project galleries at Big Stone Gap, Virginia and Lynchburg, Virginia in 1936. She later served as assistant state art supervisor for the Works Progress Administration in Virginia.