Trainyard
Date1950s
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions14 x 18 in. (35.6 x 45.7 cm)
ClassificationsPainting
Credit LineGift of The Hilbert Collection
Object number2020.212
DescriptionMargaret Esther Rogers was born in Birmingham, England in 1872. Her family emigrated to California in 1876 and settled in Monterey County, where her father operated a sheep ranch. Margaret took immediately to the ranching and horse-riding lifestyle, even becoming “head vaquero” of the Willoughby Ranch in King City in the southern Salinas Valley as a young woman, riding fence and rounding up stock.As an edition of the San Francisco Examiner (April 23, 1893) described her multiple talents: “Monterey boasts of a pretty girl who rides a man’s saddle, marks and brands stock, breaks wild colts, plows and sows, plays classic music and paints in oils.”
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