Type
Individual
Role
Artist, Collector, Writer
Identifier
JamesRebeccaSalsbury
Lifespan
1891 – 1968
Functions, Occupations, and Activities
>Painter, embroidery
Medium
Painter;Textiles
Publications
Camposantos a photographic essay by Dorothy Benrimo ; with a commentary by Rebecca Salsbury James and historical notes by E. Boyd - Fort Worth [Tex.] Amon Carter Museum of Western Art c1966;Los días cuanto hay Days gone by in Taos por Samuel M. Lavadie ; English translation by Rebecca James - [195-?] - [96] leaves in various foliations ; 28 cm. Typescripts of articles which appeared in El Crepusculo, Taos, N.M., November 10, 1949 - March 16, 1950, with translationsSpanish and English
Biography
Rebecca Salsbury James (1891–1968) self-taught American painter, born in London, England of American parents who were traveling with the Buffalo Bill Wild West Show. She settled in New York City, where she married photographer Paul Strand. Following her divorce from Strand, James moved to Taos, New Mexico where she fell in with a group that included Mabel Dodge Luhan, Dorothy Brett, and Frieda Lawrence. In 1937 she married William James, a businessman from Denver, Colorado who was then operating the Kit Carson Trading Company in Taos. She remained in Taos until her death in 1968...James is noted for her “large scale flower blossoms and still lifes painted on glass." She also worked on colcha embroidery, a traditional Hispanic New Mexico craft style. [Retrieved on 1/10/2018 from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_Salsbury_James]
Geographic names
Taos