Early 20th Century "Palm Trees" Tropical Landscape Watercolor Painting, Framed

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Watercolor painting of palm trees by Santa Cruz artist Margaret E. Rogers (American, 1872-1961). Titled "Palm Trees" and signed "Margaret … more Watercolor painting of palm trees by Santa Cruz artist Margaret E. Rogers (American, 1872-1961). Titled "Palm Trees" and signed "Margaret Rogers" on back. Born in Birmingham, England, her family immigrated to California in 1875. From the Santa Cruz Art League Collection. She was one of the original "Jolly Daubers" with Cor DeGavere, Leonora Penniman and Louise Cunningham, Santa Cruz Art League Founding Members. She studied with Frank Heath on many wagon trips to Big Basin and Yosemite. Presented in a wooden frame. Image, 14"H x 12"L. Framed size is: 20"H x 18"W. Born in Birmingham, England on May 1, 1872, the Rogers family immigrated to California in 1875 and established a prosperous sheep ranch in Monterey County. In her youth Margaret was known as one of the finest horsewomen in the West. The magazine Western Woman said of her, 'She could break the worst kind of bucking bronco without assistance; with the utmost ease she drove six or eight horses hitched together in a manner that would win admiration from the most experienced stage drivers of the old days." She left her fathers ranch in 1905 and moved to nearby Santa Cruz where she settled in the Seabright area. For many years Rogers lived in back of the old Tyrell house (now the site of the Natural History Museum on East Cliff Drive). It housed the Santa Cruz Art League of which she was a cofounder in 1919. Her art studies were under local artists Frank L. Heath and Lorenzo P. Latimer. She and her constant painting companions, Cornelia DeGavere and Leonora Penniman, were known as the "Santa Cruz Three" and made many camping trips into the Sierra and surrounding area. A spinster, she died in Santa Cruz, CA on March 15, 1961. Member: Women Painters of the West; SWA; Bay Region AA; Salinas FA Society; Oakland Art League; SF Women Artists; Berkeley League of FA; Santa Cruz Art League. Exh: Calif. Statewide (Santa Cruz), 1927-38 (awards); Oakland Art Gallery, 1932, 1934; Calif. State Fairs, 1934, 1936, 1937, 1941 (awards); GGIE, 1940; Society for Sanity in Art, CPLH, 1941. In: Santa Cruz City Museum; Santa Cruz County Hosptial. 11 Art and Artists in Santa Cruz; Women of the West, 1928 less