Rebecca Salsbury James

Rebecca Salsbury James
Born
Rebecca Salsbury

(1891-12-21)December 21, 1891
London, England
DiedJuly 8, 1968(1968-07-08) (aged 76)
Taos, NM
NationalityAmerican
EducationSelf taught
Known forPainting on glass, colcha embroidery
MovementModernism
Spouse(s)Paul Strand; Bill James

Rebecca Salsbury James (1891–1968) was a self-taught American painter, born in London, England of American parents who were traveling with the Buffalo Bill Wild West Show.[1] 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.[2][unreliable source?] 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.[3]

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.[4][5]

  1. ^ "Rebecca Salsbury James: Paintings and Colchas". Retrieved 7 March 2016.
  2. ^ liz. "Mabel Dodge Luhan and the Remarkable Women of Taos". Retrieved 7 March 2016.
  3. ^ Burke, Carolyn (2019). Foursome: Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe, Paul Strand, Rebecca Salsbury. New York: Knopf. p. 297. ISBN 978-0-307-95729-0.
  4. ^ Heller, Jules and Nancy G, Heller, ed., “North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary” Garland Reference Library of the Humanities (Vol. 1219), Garland Publishing Company, New York & London, 1995
  5. ^ Petteys, Chris, “Dictionary of Women Artists: An international dictionary of women artists born before 1900”, G.K. Hall & Co., Boston, 1985