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Cordelia Wilson, an artist from Georgetown, Colorado developed her skills as an artist motivated by latest trends in American realism led by Robert Henri.

Her academic training emphasized development of an alla prima technique and painting out of doors, which inspired her to produce bold impasto works quickly.

She started making road trips to New Mexico and became friends with painters in the Taos Society of Artists and the Santa Fe art colony.

Her numerous expressive oil sketches and en plein air canvases of adobe dwellings and rugged landscapes caught the attention of art dealers.