Art teacher and cartoonist Doris Nitti, formerly of Provincetown, died peacefully on Feb. 13, 2025 at Greenridge Place, an assisted living community in Rocky Hill, Conn. She was 92. Doris was born on Dec. 14, 1932 in East Haven, Conn. Her Provincetown neighbor Padric Meagher said she was the adopted daughter of Joseph and Julia (Pecoraro) Nitti, working-class first-generation Italian Americans who “struggled to make ends meet,” said Doris’s niece Jeanne Kirby. “They even made their own dandelion wine.”

Growing up in East Haven enabled Doris to visit New York City art museums. “Seeing the masters was mind-blowing for her,” said Jeanne. Doris graduated from East Haven High School in 1950. Her yearbook noted that “Drawing is her specialty,” that she “likes a sense of humor and honesty,” and that her “art future” could be found on “the comic page.” One of her dreams, Jeanne said, “was to be a New Yorker cartoonist.”