Mary Virginia Carson Pioneer Artist Capturing Rock Art With Watercolors Witte Museum established in 1853

established in 1853

Vernon Bailey became the first person to conduct extensive biological surveys of Texas

plus all-new maps and a collection of new and revised plates

What brought the author's family to Texas

With a promise and a dollar and a half

Mary Virginia Carson Pioneer Artist Capturing Rock Art With Watercolors Witte Museum established in 1853Artist, 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