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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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   Publications  Book References:  21
Magazine References:  2

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2 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Rebecca Stroud Salsbury James
Magazine Article Date Author Color
American Art Review Taos Artists & Their Patrons August 1999 Campbell, Suzan Yes
American Art Review Modernism June 1994 AR editors Yes
21 Book References for Rebecca Stroud Salsbury James
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1999 Porter, Dean; Teresa Ebie Taos Artists and Their Patrons, 1898-1950 400 Yes
1996 Shipp, Steve American Art Colonies 1850-1930 A Guide to Original Art Colonies and Their Artists 159 No
1996 White, Robert (Editor) New Mexico Art History Conference Abstracts, 1986-1995 88 No
1995 Heller, Jules and Nancy G. Heller North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century A Biographical Dictionary 612 No
1995 Trenton, Patricia (Editor); Sandra E'Emilio, Erika Doss (et all) Independent Spirits: Women Painters of the American West 1890-1945
(Exhibition catalog)
304 Yes
1994 Skolnick, Arnold/Suzan Campbell Paintings of the Southwest 128 No
1993 Ellis, Simone Santa Fe Art 112 Yes
1992 Museum of Fine Arts Artists of 20th Century New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts Collection 167 Yes
1985 Dawdy, Doris Artists of the American West: Three Volumes A Biographical Dictionary 1184 No
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1985 Petteys, Chris with Hazel Gustow, Ferris Olin and Verna Ritchie Dictionary of Women Artists: An International Dictionary of Women Artists Born Before 1900 851 No
1984 Witt, David L The Taos Artists A Historical and Biographical Dictionary 63 No
1976 Samuels, Peggy and Harold The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West 549 No
1976 School of American Research Representative Art and Artists of New Mexico
(Exhibition catalog)
41 No
1974 New Mexico, Museum of Fine Art Handbook of the Collections Museum of Fine Arts 192 Yes
1973 Morrill, Claire A Taos Mosaic 0 No
1963 Coke, Van Deren Taos and Santa Fe The Artists Environment 1882-1942 168 Yes
1947 Luhan, Mabel Dodge Taos and Its Artists 168 No
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