biography of Oriana DAY (1838-1886)

Birth place: Boston, MA

Death place: San Francisco, CA

Addresses: San Francisco, CA

Profession: Painter

Work: Vallejo Home State Hist. Park, Sonoma; Marin County Hist. Soc.; de Young Mus. (21 oils of the Calif. missions); Soc. of Calif. Pioneers

Comments: She traveled El Camino Real between 1867 and 1884 to paint all of the 21 California missions.

Sources: Hughes, Artists of California, 137.