Cheury learned Japanese paintings and prints, designed costumes of the Paris Opera and executed an extensive series of wash drawings of the Chartes Cathedral.
[1] Cheury served as head of costume design for the Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier in Paris under famed early experimental director Jacques Copeau.
She taught drawing and painting and took weekly classes with various artists including Raoul Dufy who during this period worked as the head of fabric design for Bainchini.
Rene joined Germaine permanently in 1945 and as the City of Tucson continued to grow they moved further out first to Bellevue Street and Alvernon Way to be near what they called the “greasewood and quail” and then seven miles from downtown to the “mesquite” of the established artist colony in the old Fort Lowell District.
In 1963 she said: “I was fascinated by the beginnings of Tucson.” Cheury's well known work included a painted series of panels in a Mexican Style installed in the Old Adobe Patio in the Historic Landmark the Charles O.
In this work Cheury choose several prosaic historic scenes from Tucson past including the first ice cream in city, pie concession and two ladies trying to figure out whether coffee was meant to be fried.