Mary Virginia Carson Pioneer Artist Capturing Rock Art With Watercolors Witte Museum an itinerant vaudeville actor

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Mary Virginia Carson Pioneer Artist Capturing Rock Art With Watercolors Witte Museum an itinerant vaudeville actorArtist, architect, and engineer Mary Virginia Carson was the first modern person to capture images of the magnificent murals on the walls of rock shelters in the Lower Pecos Canyonlands. Carson was hired as "Artist' by the Witte Memorial Museum to join an expedition to sketch paintings created by the first people of what we now call Texas. During the summer months of 1931, Carson sat on hot boulders in the blazing sun to render the images before her