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Willoughby Ions (1881-1977) was an American composer, artist, poet and dramatist. She was an Art administrator for the Federal Art Project.

Born Estelle de Willoughby Ions in New Orleans, she was married twice.[1] She wrote the play The Age of Innocents and the opera All in a Golden Springtime. She was a member of the Equal Suffrage League of Virginia.[2] She was a partner of Adèle Clark, who was her first cousin.[3][1]

Some of her artworks are held at the National Gallery of Art.[4] Her papers are held at the Virginia Historical Society.[1] In 1964 she was interviewed as part of an oral history project by the Archives of American Art.[5]

References

External links

• Oral history interview with Willoughby Ions, 1964 Mar. 11
• Waste Not, Want Not

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