This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  The following biography has been provided by Karen Towers Klacsmann, Curator for Research, Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, Georgia.
Wenonah Day Bell was born in Trenton, South Carolina, on February 7, 1890. Her father, James A. Bell, was a Baptist minister. The family lived in a succession of towns in upstate South Carolina and moved to Gainesville, Georgia, around 1900.
Bell entered Brenau College and Conservatory in 1908 and attended until 1910. She then attended the University of Pennsylvania from 1910 until 1912. Other schools attended were the Colarossi Academy in Paris, France; Hans Hofmann Schools in Munich, Germany, and Capri, Italy; Columbia University Teachers College in New York; and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1921–1926. While a student at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Bell was awarded the William Emlen Cresson Award, the Second Toppan Prize, and the Mary Smith Prize. She taught at Parsons School of Design in New York from 1947 until the early 1970s. It appears that she traveled back and forth to visit family throughout her life but moved permanently back to Greenville, Georgia, in the 1970s, where she remained for the rest of her life.
The nine works in the Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, Georgia, are dated from 1922 through 1936. (One is undated.) Other work can be found in the collections of the Greenville County Museum of Art (S.C.) and Bob Jones University Art Gallery.
Further reading:
Bell, Wenonah. The Restless Bells. New York: Vantage Press, 1973.
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Biography from Knoke Fine Arts:
|  Wenonah Day Bell (1890-1981) depicted Southern rural life, New York urban scenes, still lifes and portraits in watercolor and oil. Her style, while realistic, reflected a modernist influence.
In 1889 she was born to a Baptist minister in Trenton, South Carolina, and later moved to Greenville, Georgia. She studied at Brenau College and Conservatory in Georgia; University of Pennsylvania; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts; Colarossi Academy of Fine Arts in Paris; the Hans Hoffman School of Fine Arts in Munich, Germany and Capri, Italy and the Columbia University Teachers College.
While studying at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, she won the prestigious William Emlen Cresson Award and the Second Toppan Prize. She taught at the Parsons School of Design and lived in Hicksville, New York.
In the 1970’s she moved to Greenville, Georgia. She exhibited throughout the Southeast, Philadelphia, Detroit, and New York City. Her fine works are in private collections, the Agricultural Building in Washington, D.C.; the courthouses of Columbus and Greenville, Georgia; West Georgia State College in Carrollton; and Bob Jones University and the Greenville County Museum of Art in Greenville, South Carolina.
Exhibitions:
“Work Song”, Greenville County Museum of Art, South Carolina May 15 through July 1, 1990
McKissick Museum, Columbia, South Carolina, September 2, through October 28, 1990
“Wenonah Day Bell”, Bob Jones University, Greenville, South Carolina, January 15, through February 3,
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