Wilma  Wethington

(1918 – 2014) Wilma Wethington, born and raised in Iowa, spent most of her adult life in Wichita, KS. She spent her life immersed in art, painting until she died in 2014 at 96.

She was active in the Kansas Watercolor Society from its inception. During World War II, she worked as a draftsman and illustrator at Boeing Aircraft Company and then as a commercial artist at McCormick Armstrong Printing Company. In the 1970s and 80s, she and her husband, Bert, were the owners of Accent Frame and Gallery in Wichita. Wethington’s crowning artistic achievement came when her piece “Threatening Weather, But The Mail Must Go Through, 1924″, a portrait of a WWI ‘Jenny’ plane, was hung in the Smithsonian National Space and Air Museum. The artwork can be viewed in ‘Treasures of the National Air and Space Museum’ by Martin Harwit (p. 283).”