Keating, Mary Aubrey (1894–1953).

Mary Aubrey Keating, artist, was born in 1894 in San Antonio, Texas, daughter of Eugenia (Speer) and William Aubrey. She attended San Antonio public schools and Notre Dame College, Baltimore, Maryland, and Monticello, Illinois. Mary later studied singing with Madame Ernestine Schumann-Heineck and performed with various symphonies and the Philadelphia and San Carlos opera companies. On June 1, 1921, Mary married Peter McCall Keating. They had four children.

Although Mary had given up her favorable opera career for her family, she soon found an outlet for her creative abilities in painting, a self-taught hobby. Mary's works focused on Hispanic subjects in San Antonio, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, ...