Eleanor de Laittre (1911–1998) was an American abstract artist and an early proponent of abstract, cubist-inspired, non-objective art. During a period when representational art was the norm in the United States, she adhered to a style that was based on her study of paintings by Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Paul Klee, and Raoul Dufy. She was a member of American Abstract Artists, a group that flourished during the late 1930s and throughout the 1940s and that included among its members Josef Albers, Ilya Bolotowsky, Werner Drewes, Suzy Frelinghuysen, A.E. Gallatin, Adolph Gottlieb, George L.K. Morris, among many others. The New York gallery exhibitions of the 1940s and early 1950s were a high point in de Laittre's career. Thereafter she continued making sculpture and paintings and in 1989 she appeared in an exhibition at the National Museum of American Art in Washington, D.C. (now the Smithsonian American Art Museum) called "American Abstraction 1930-1945.”