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Rebecca Stroud Salsbury James

Rebecca Stroud Salsbury James (1891 - 1968) was active/lived in New Mexico.  Rebecca James is known for Botanic on glass painting, colcha embroidery.

It was indeed something quintessentially American in Rebecca James' character, a link with the American frontier myth, that attracted people to her. She wore trousers, cursed like a mountain man, loved all-night poker games and community dances, and could drink men under the table. James' father was none other than showman Nate Salsbury, creator of the Buffalo Bill Wild West Show that disseminated the myth of the American West throughout the world.

Rebecca was in fact born in London, England, during one of the Wild West Show's appearances there, and as a child she spent much of her time with characters like sharpshooter Annie Oakley. James married photographer Paul Strand in 1922, and he brought her into the heady atmosphere of Alfred Stieglitz's avant-garde art group. Through the 1920s, she discovered her own calling as an artist and began to teach herself to draw and paint. She spent summers at the Stieglitz home in Lake George, New York where Stieglitz frequently ph   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 5285 characters.]  Artist bio

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