Margaret Tupper (1887-1979), "Fishing Shack", watercolor, sight: 15 x 20", frame: 23 x 28"

Provenance: A San Antonio, Texas collection

Born in San Angelo, Texas, Margaret Tupper became a landscape painter who remained in Texas but traveled widely including to France, Spain, Switzerland, England and Mexico, where she studied in San Miquel de Allende. She was the daughter of prominent parents in San Angelo and showed little interest in art as a child. She graduated from San Angelo High School and then attended a finishing school. In 1907, just out of school, she married Clifton Tupper, a founder of the San Angelo Evening Standard newspaper.  Four years later they moved to Waco, Texas, and in 1912, they moved again, this time to San Antonio where they lived for 25 years until his death in 1938.  Then she returned to San Angelo for the remainder of her life. She taught art classes, served as President of the San Angelo Art League, and continued painting until two years before her death at age 92.