Emily Noyes Vanderpoel

Emily Noyes Vanderpoel (June 21, 1842 – February 20, 1939) was an American artist, writer, and philanthropist. She is perhaps best remembered for her book Color Problems, an early contribution to the color theory.

Early life Emily Caroline Noyes was born on June 21, 1842, in New York City to William Curtis Noyes and Julia Tallmadge Noyes. She was the great-granddaughter of Col. Benjamin Tallmadge. She was educated in private schools in New York, and later studied art under Robert Swain Gifford and William Sartain. She was a member of the New York Watercolor Club (of which she also served a term as Vice-President) and the Woman's Art Club of New York. She exhibited her work at the Woman's Building at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois. There she was awarded a bronze medal. She also helped to found local chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Her book was brought back into print in 2018.

She died on February 20, 1939, and is buried in East Cemetery in Litchfield.

Legacy Vanderpoel donated her art pottery collection to the Litchfield Historical Society and her Japanese art collection to the Norwich Museum. Her legacy is also bound up in her preservation work in Litchfield. "What Vanderpoel was instrumental in creating is for the most part not a genuine Colonial townscape, but an idealized Colonial Revival landscape – significantly, one that many consider the finest example of Colonial Revival architecture in this country."

Works Color problems: a practical manual for the lay student of color (1902) Chronicles of a pioneer school from 1792 to 1833 (1903) The tale of the spinning wheel (1903) (illustrator) American Lace and Lace-Makers (1924) More chronicles of a pioneer school, from 1792 to 1833 (1927)