According to a review of a 1941 exhibit by her: "Underlying the work and reflected in all its manifestations is a clearly defined purpose: to make a vivid, permanent record of those phases of southwestern life which even now are disappearing".
[6] Much of McClung's work focused on the "rural farm or developed and unspoiled landscape," like North Wind, which "recorded an event and a place which she knew.
"[1] Others pieces focus on places McClung traveled to, like Victor, Colorado; Taos; Cypress Swamp; and Torii-Japan.
This guild was made up of a small group of Texas women artists, who founded it after being excluded because of their gender from the Lone Star Printmakers of Dallas, headed by Hogue and Jerry Bywaters.
In 1946, she was elected to the board of directors of the Southern States Art League,[8] as well as the Texas chairman for the National Association of Women Painters.
She may also have created fewer works because it became difficult for her to "reconcile her love for rural countryside with the growing urban character of Dallas".