Born in Louisville, Kentucky, Mary Colton was a founder of the Museum of Northern Arizona in Flagstaff as well as a noted landscapist, Indian portraitist, sculptor, museum curator, and writer. Of... Read full biography
Born in Louisville, Kentucky, Mary Colton was a founder of the Museum of Northern Arizona in Flagstaff as well as a noted landscapist, Indian portraitist, sculptor, museum curator, and writer. Of particular delight to her was painting the Hopi and Navajo Indians on site, directly from life. In... Read full biography
Born in Louisville, Kentucky, Mary Colton was a founder of the Museum of Northern Arizona in Flagstaff as well as a noted landscapist, Indian portraitist, sculptor, museum curator, and writer. Of particular delight to her was painting the Hopi and Navajo Indians on site, directly from life. In Philadelphia, she studied at Moore Institute and at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women, 1904-09, with Henry Snell and Elliott Daingerfield. She had obvious talent for landscape painting and from... Read full biography
Born in Louisville, Kentucky, Mary Colton was a founder of the Museum of Northern Arizona in Flagstaff as well as a noted landscapist, Indian portraitist, sculptor, museum curator, and writer. Of particular delight to her was painting the Hopi and Navajo Indians on site, directly from life. In Philadelphia, she studied at Moore Institute and at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women, 1904-09, with Henry Snell and Elliott Daingerfield. She had obvious talent for landscape painting and from a studio in Philadelphia, she worked as a commercial artist and restorer of paintings. She became associated with a group of ten Philadelphia women artists (The Philadelphia Ten) with whom she continued to exhibit intermittently over the next thirty... Read full biography
Born in Louisville, Kentucky, Mary Colton was a founder of the Museum of Northern Arizona in Flagstaff as well as a noted landscapist, Indian portraitist, sculptor, museum curator, and writer. Of particular delight to her was painting the Hopi and Navajo Indians on site, directly from life. In Philadelphia, she studied at Moore Institute and at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women, 1904-09, with Henry Snell and Elliott Daingerfield. She had obvious talent for landscape painting and from a studio in Philadelphia, she worked as a commercial artist and restorer of paintings. She became associated with a group of ten Philadelphia women artists (The Philadelphia Ten) with whom she continued to exhibit intermittently over the next thirty years. In 1912, she married a zoology instructor, Dr. Harold S Colton, and moved with him to Arizona in 1924 alt... Read full biography
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