Willoughby Ions


Willoughby Ions was an American composer, artist, poet and dramatist. She was an Art administrator for the Federal Art Project.

Life

Born Estelle de Willoughby Ions in New Orleans, she was married twice.
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.
She was a partner of Adèle Clark, who was her first cousin.
Some of her artworks are held at the National Gallery. Her papers are held at the Virginia Historical Society. In 1964 she was interviewed as part of an oral history project by the Archives of American Art.