Lydia Bush-Brown Head

Lydia Bush-Brown Head (1887–1984) was an American visual artist, known to work as a painter and designer. She is best known for her silk batik wall hangings. Lydia Bush-Brown was the daughter of sculptor Henry Kirke Bush-Brown and his wife, the painter Margaret Lesley.

She grew up near Newburgh, New York, for the wounded in both France and the United States.

She traveled widely, which provided the source for many of her subjects, and she exhibited throughout the United States and abroad during her career. She belonged to the Arts and Crafts Society of New York City, the National Arts Club, the Civic Club, the Arts Club of Washington, the Philadelphia Art Alliance, and the Arts and Crafts Society of Boston. and a number of her pieces are in the collection as well, donated by others. Between 1968 and 1978 she donated a collection of her family's papers to Smith College.