Inez Harrington Whitfield has painted over 400 specimens of Arkansas Wild Flowers. Born in Ilion, New York and a graduate of Smith College, she taught at a private school Garner Institute of New York. She co-founded the Whitfield-Bliss School for Girls. She was a charter member of the Hot Springs, Arkansas branch of the American Association of University Women, charter member of the Business and Professional Women of Hot Springs and a member of the Garden Club.

Whitfield painted the wildflowers of Arkansas in exact size and colors, properly identified them with common and botanical names. She grouped them according to location and blooming seasons. Acting as artist and Conservationist friends and Boy and Girl Scouts would bring various flowers to her, she would then draw them and replant them. She was confined to a wheelchair following an accident in 1911. She says that to her flowers are humanized, each having its own personality.

She exhibited in the Rockefeller Center in New York and the gallery of the Garden of Nations, and Colorado University in Boulder.

Sources:
AAC Files
Little Rock Womens City Club, Garden Club, September 1959