Agnes Weinrich was born in Burlington, Iowa in 1873. She studied with French Cubist Albert Gleizes in Berlin, Paris, and Rome, and with Charles Webster Hawthorne and Blanche Lazzell in Provincetown, Massachusetts. In the 1920s, she organized and directed the first association for female painters in the United States, the New York Society of Women Painters. She was a founder of the Modernist Movement at the Provincetown Art Association. She exhibited in museums in Washington, DC, Boston, New York City, and elsewhere. Her work is highly sought after because she was one of the earliest American Modernist artists. She lived in Provincetown until her death in 1946.