From 1900 to 1907 she studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts under Edmund C. Tarbell, winning several awards while still a student.

[4] Her best-known painting is Woman in a Fur Hat, a self-portrait, which won a silver medal at the Panama–Pacific International Exposition in 1915.

In an interview, curator Erica Hirshler named it as one of her two favorites, noting that it deliberately echoes Jan Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring in its pose, title, and "attention to light and texture".

[7] In 1930 Rogers was still exhibiting, grouped with "such well-known artists" as Adelaide Cole Chase, Louis Kronberg, and "Mrs. Philip L. Hale" in The American Magazine of Art.

[8] Soon afterwards, unable to support herself as an artist during the Great Depression,[2] she gave up her Back Bay studio and apparently quit painting.