Maria Judson Strean (1865–1949) was an American portraitist, active mainly as a miniaturist. A native of Washington, Pennsylvania, Strean studied at the Art Students League of New York with Kenyon Cox and J. Alden Weir. She also studied in Paris, where her teachers included René-Xavier Prinet and André Dauchez. She served as recording secretary of the Art War Relief and secretary of the Artists of Carnegie Hall, in which building she had an apartment and studio space for many years; she was also a member of the American Society of Miniature Painters, the Philadelphia Society of Miniature Painters, and the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors. She won a number of awards, including a medal at the Pan American Exposition of 1901. Noted as well for her watercolors, she died in