A painter and musician, Dorothy Kent, the sister of artist Rockwell Kent, was an early female visitor to the American West and by 1930 was living in New Mexico, likely at Chamita.  She later settled in Alcalde.  Her parents were Rockwell and Sara Ann Holgate Banker Kent, and the family had another son, named Douglas, and lived in Tarrytown, New York.

Kent left Tarrytown, and was in the Southwest as early as 1916 when she traveled with Carol Stanley (future owner of (showing 500 of 2054 characters).