November 13, 2012
Grand Canyon, c. 1920 by Jessie Benton Evans. Submitted image
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The Museum of Northern Arizona's (MNA) newest exhibit, Arizona's Pioneering Women Artists, pays tribute to the adventurous and often independent women who came from eastern big cities and settled in Arizona during its Territorial Period, making their living by depicting the beauty of the Southwest, its people and its wide open spaces. Undeterred by the challenges of settling in early Arizona, they outnumbered male artists in the area and explored a wild region that was largely unknown to the rest of the country around the turn of the century.