Doris Patty Rosenthal (1889-1971) was an American painter, illustrator and printmaker. She was born into a prosperous Jewish family in 1889 on a ranch. Then during the 1910's, she started her career as an artist in Los Angeles. She was particularly known for landscapes and still lifes, and enjoyed painting in Mexico where women and children were her main subjects. In 1931, she was awarded a fellowship by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to do painting in Mexico for two years. She would then make yearly trips to the country, staying in small villages during the summer. She would be awarded a second fellowship by the same foundation in 1936. Doris would eventually permanently move to Mexico in 1957 and then pass away in Oaxaca in 1971.