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Evelyn Otheto Stoddard Weston (1895-1990).

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Evelyn Otheto Stoddard Weston (1895-1990).
A grouping of a drawing, photograph, and letter. Artist: Evelyn Otheto Stoddard Weston (1895-1990).  Title/Description: "Old Willow, Columbia". Signature: Signed lower left. Date Created: 1970. Medium/Ground: Ink on paper. Size: 12 3/4in x 9 13/16in. Condition: Tipped-on to cardboard at top margin; soiling at top left corner. Together with: A black and white photograph of Otheto painting (trimmed; 7 3/4in x 7in), c. 1950s-1960s. And, a typed letter signed [1965], from Otheto to "Pal and Pelly" (Harriet Dean and Elsie Whitaker Martinez), 11in x 8 3/8in. Condition: Light toning, folds. Along with family news and her photographic survey of Columbia for the Department of the Interior, she writes of reading the biography of Charles Warren Stoddard (her father) and how she feels she has "the same troubled soul as he had".  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).