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Evelyn Otheto Stoddard Weston (1895-1990).

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:50.00 USD Estimated At:100.00 - 200.00 USD
Evelyn Otheto Stoddard Weston (1895-1990).
Artist: Evelyn Otheto Stoddard Weston (1895-1990). Title/Description: "Express Office - Columbia". Signature: Signed lower right, and inscribed to Harriet Dean and Elsie Whitaker Martinez: "To my Beloved friends Pal & Pellie, from Evelyn S." Date Created: 1950. Medium/Ground: Pencil and watercolor on paper. Size: 13in x 9 1/2in (sight); 18 1/2in x 14 1/4in (frame). Condition good. Evelyn Stoddard, known later as Otheto S. Weston, was a self-taught artist who lived and worked in the town of Columbia, California, painting historic buildings and supporting preservation. Otheto was the illegitimate daughter of Monterey artist M. Evelyn McCormick (1863-1948) and poet Charles Warren Stoddard (1843-1909). She was raised as an orphan and moved to Berkeley, California in 1914 when she likely became friends with Elsie Whitaker Martinez and Harriet Dean. She settled in the Gold Country in the 1930s. From the Family of Xavier Martinez (1869-1943), Elsie Whitaker Martinez (1890-1984), and Micaela Martinez DuCasse (1913-1989).