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Gentlewoman and Artist in the West
Mary Hallock Foote's drawing of a young woman walking along an irrigation ditch serves as a window into her own often isolated situation in the vast, sparsely settled American West. When she married a mining engineer in 1876, she left a budding career on the East Coast but continued illustrating and writing under often challenging conditions. This drawing from nearly twenty years later attests to her persistence in pursuing her career. |