2022 Raffle
“Hattie Caraway”, by Cary Smith was one of the standouts from our Arkansas Territory Exhibition. See below how to purchase raffle tickets for this beautiful 22 x 17 inch watercolor painting.
Cary Smith’s Artist Statement About “Hattie Caraway”
My painting portrays Hattie Ophelia Wyatt Caraway, who was the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate, the first woman to preside over the Senate, the first to chair a Senate committee, and the first to preside over a Senate hearing. She served from 1931 to 1945.
Caraway was instrumental in securing Camp Robinson, Fort Chaffee, five air bases, defense ordinance plants, and aluminum factories in Arkansas during World War II. Caraway also worked for the Equal Nationality Treaty of 1934, which extended to women numerous nationality rights previously limited to men. In 1943, she become the first woman in the Senate to co-sponsor the proposed Equal Rights Amendment.
Raffle Instructions
$5 per raffle ticket
$20 = (4 + 1) 5 tickets
$100 = 25 tickets, plus gets you a 1 year HOAAA membership.
The final drawing will take place in December 2022. For online tickets, we will email you with the corresponding raffle ticket number(s).