Allie May "A.M." Carpenter (January 4, 1887 at Prairie Home, Missouri – July 1978 at Denver, Colorado) was a twentieth-century artist and art educator. She worked in a wide variety of media, including oils, pastels, watercolor, printmaking, design, etching, china painting, interior design and decoration, and tapestry. Many of her works are signed "A. M. Carpenter."She was a graduate of Hardin College and Conservatory of Music in Mexico, Missouri, a Baptist college established in 1873 for young women. She was a 1918 graduate in art of the Art Institute of Chicago. She studied under D. C. Smith, C. A. Harbert, Blanche Van Court Snider, and Emma Richardson Cherry. Wikipedia