ABSTRACT
This chapter examines some examples which include Frieda Lawrence, the wife of D.H. Lawrence, aristocratic English artist Dorothy Brett, one of the Bloomsbury Group, Mabel Dodge Luhan, New York society hostess and patron and Millicent Rogers, the fashion-plate oil heiress. It explores what drew these women to the South-West, what encouraged them to stay, and why their presence and individual narratives are commemorated by various tourist attractions, including museums, memorials and galleries. Both Taos and Santa Fe have built their tourism industries on their artistic heritage. The railway brought these artists to New Mexico and they were attracted by its rusticity and the magnificent scenery. There was often a resistance to development as a result. For many of these artists, the local Native American and Hispanic populations were exotically attractive but interaction was limited to 'hiring them to sit as models for paintings and to perform domestic labor'.
