Introduction
Emily DuBois Hoysradt led an active life, devoted to art, learning, and participation in several community organizations. Unlike most women in the early 1900s, Emily never married. In the DuBois Family Genealogy, Emily is listed as an “artist of renown in the Hudson Valley and New York City.” Her works are featured in the collections of Historic Huguenot Street, the Haviland-Heidgerd Historical Collection at the Elting Memorial Library, and the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz.
Photograph of Emily Dubois Hoysradt. HHS Archives.
Emily DuBois Hoysradt was born in 1893, the daughter of Marion DuBois (1868-1949) and Louis Hoysradt (1869-1950) in Kingston, New York. Both Emily’s parents were descended from Louis DuBois, one of the twelve Huguenots granted the New Paltz patent. Emily died in 1983. She is buried at Montrepose Cemetery in Kingston.
Header image: Detail from Emily DuBois Hoysradt's The Rondout Bridge, late 1940s. Oil on canvas. Historic Huguenot Street Permanent Collection, Gift of the artist, 1983.11476.01.