Bessie Wheeler (1876–?), was an American painter about whom little is known. She painted portraits of people encountered on the streets of Honolulu around 1900. She contributed illustrations to

Thrum's Hawaiian Annual ''Thrum's Hawaiian Annual'' (fully ''Thrum's Hawaiian Annual and Standard Guide''; alternatively ''All About Hawaii'') is a statistical compendium of Hawaiiana ranging from Hawaiian mythology to Hawaiian language to sites of interest in Hawaii. O ...

and was a member of the

Kilohana Art League The Kilohana Art League was formed in 1894 as Honolulu’s first art association. On May 5, 1894, the woodcarver Augusta Graham, the sculptor Allen Hutchinson, and painters D. Howard Hitchcock and Annie H. Park created a forum where local artis ...

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