A listed California artist born in Nebraska in 1892, Lillian Mae Duquette studied with Augustus Dunbier, Will Foster and Sergei Bongart.

 She is well known for her portraits, Plein air landscapes and sill life paintings. She exhibited at the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts and the Smithsonian Collection. In the 1930's she visited and painted in the Taos, New Mexico area. She died in 1978.