1. Maria Chabot, was an advocate for Native American arts, a rancher, and a friend of Georgia O'Keeffe.
25 Facts About Maria Chabot
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Maria Chabot led the restoration of her house in Abiquiu, New Mexico, and took the photograph of O'Keeffe entitled Women Who Rode Away, in which the artist was on the back of a motorcycle driven by Maurice Grosser.
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Maria Chabot was executive secretary of the New Mexico Association on Indian Affairs.
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Maria Chabot has been described as "a photographer, writer, and explorer".
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Maria Lea Chabot was born on September 19,1913, in San Antonio, Texas, the daughter of Charles Jasper Chabot, a capitalist, and his third wife Olive Anderston Johnston, Chabot.
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Maria Chabot had three half-sibblings who reached adulthood from her parents' previous marriages: Frederick Charles Chabot, Edith Lilian Chabot, and James Kennedy Johnston.
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Maria Chabot developed an interest in writing and painting in her teens.
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Maria Chabot continued to write fiction into the 1960s, but the short stories and novels were never published.
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Maria Chabot moved to Santa Fe about 1931, when she was 18.
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Maria Chabot traveled in 1933 to Mexico City to pursue her interests in literature and art and visit a relative, Emily Edwards, who lived there at the time.
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Maria Chabot met sisters Dorothy Stewart and Margretta Stewart Dietrich, Olive Rush, Erna Fergusson, as well as Jose Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, and other notable Mexican artists.
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Stewart had asked Maria Chabot to assist her with a fresco for a theatre in Albuquerque.
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Maria Chabot worked at the federal Indian Arts and Crafts Board in 1935.
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Maria Chabot photographed the collection of Mary Cabot Wheelwright, who was a noted collector of Navajo art, now in the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian.
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Maria Chabot was made the executive secretary of the New Mexico Association on Indian Affairs in 1936.
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Maria Chabot visited pueblos and encouraged artists to sell their works, including Maria Martinez, a potter of the San Ildefonso Pueblo.
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Maria Chabot worked then at the federal Indian Arts and Crafts Board where she established cooperative marketing organizations on reservations.
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Maria Chabot lived at Mary Cabot Wheelwright's Los Luceros property in Alcalde, New Mexico, after then end of her relationship with Dorothy Stewart.
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Maria Chabot was a companion and ran Wheelwright's cattle ranch, farm, and fruit tree orchard for 20 years.
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In 1940, Maria Chabot met O'Keeffe, with whom she had a friendship that allowed for Maria Chabot to write in a peaceful setting and for O'Keefe to paint and spend part of the year in New York with her husband Alfred Stieglitz.
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Maria Chabot spent the summers and falls at her house on the Ghost Ranch from 1941 to 1944, managing the ranch in the summers.
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Maria Chabot camped with O'Keeffe in northern New Mexico and was captured in the painting Maria goes to a Party in one of O'Keeffe's paintings of their trips.
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In 1961, Chabot married radio astronomer Dana K Bailey who works at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
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Maria Chabot was named a "Living Treasure" of Santa Fe in 1996.
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Maria Chabot died on July 9,2001, at 87 years of age in an Albuquerque hospital.