Nannie Zenobia Huddle was an accomplished sculptor and painter. She came to Texas from Mobile, Alabama as a child.  She first studied art at St. Mary’s Academy in Austin. One of her teachers was famous Texas artist, William Henry Huddle, whom she married after an almost ten year courtship. Her husband died in 1892 and she turned to art to fulfill the void of his loss. She was advertising in Austin as a professional artist as early as 1893.   In the early 1900s, Huddle spent several years in New York City, where she studied at the Art Students League, which her husband had helped to establish.  Her instructors included William Merritt Chase and Wayman Adams.  She was a friend of Texas sculptor Elizabet Ney, who accompanied her on her painting studies such as "Texas Clover in the Ney Studio Grounds.” She became Elizabet Ney’s only American pupil studying with her for five years. The Texas Legislature commissioned her to travel to Washington to paint the portrait of President Woodrow Wilson which she painted in the White House. She taught art at the Texas School for the Deaf until her retirement in the 1940’s. In later years she lived with her daughter and  recorded in paint and watercolor some 125 varieties of Texas wild flowers. She is credited as one of the first artists in Texas to paint fields of bluebonnets.