[1] She studied at the Art Students League of Los Angeles, where she met Fred Sexton.

During her time at the Art Students League of Los Angeles, she also met painter James M. Redmond, who painted her portrait in oils.

[3] Her husband Fred Sexton was a witness in the 1949 incest trial of his friend Dr. George Hill Hodel, who was charged by LAPD with multiple counts of sexual abuse with his minor daughter, Tamar.

Sexton published her first children's book, Maxmilian the Unmerry; There Once Was a King (1959, Charles Scribner's Sons), which she both wrote and illustrated.

[6][7][8] The story is written in rhyme and is about a unpredictable king named Maxmilian, a wishing stone, and a mouse.