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Evelyn Otheto Stoddard Weston (1895-1990).

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Evelyn Otheto Stoddard Weston (1895-1990).
Artist: Evelyn Otheto Stoddard Weston (1895-1990). Title/Description: Building and figures in Columbia, California. Signature: Unsigned/not visible. Date Created: 20th Century. Medium/Ground: Ink and watercolor on paper. Size: 8 1/2in x 11in (sight); 15in x 19in (frame). Condition: Small tear at lower left margin. 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).