Born and raised in Tacoma, Washington, Rowena Alcorn was a long-time art teacher in the state of Washington and focused her art work early in her career on formal portraiture and landscapes including many views of California's Mohave Desert. Later she turned to Indian subjects, doing illustrations for Henry Spaulding, missionary in the Northwest.
Between 1935 and 1958, she produced more than thirty life-size portraits of the Nez Perce and had numerous exhibitions of this work in museums (showing 500 of 1396 characters). |
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