Lucille Douglass

Lucille Douglass (November 4, 1878, Tuskegee, Alabama - September 26, 1935, Andover, Massachusetts) was an American painter, etcher, and lecturer. She traveled in, depicted and spoke about Cambodia and China. In 1928 Douglass was described by the New York Evening Post as "one of America's best known painters and etchers". Her works are included in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Birmingham Museum of Art and the British Museum, among others.

In 1920, Douglass went to China as an employee of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church. She organized and supervised a workshop in Shanghai, where Chinese women hand-colored photographic slides for the missionary society. Women were intentionally chosen as employees and were given opportunities to learn English and in some cases tuition to attend school. Douglass also became a writer and associate editor of Shanghai Times, an English-language publication.

“Angkor is one of the really great experiences of my life-a more intellectual than emotional experience — not that it left me cold, quite the contrary — but it was more of an uplift — an inspiration... — Angkor Wat alone requires years of study — living with understanding — a few days seems but a mockery." Lucille Douglass, 1926