She worked in oils and watercolors, and with a wide variety of subjects including landscapes, Northwest scenes of rugged mountains, seascapes, and portraits of such historical figures as Ezra Meeker, a pioneer who traveled the Oregon Trail.
In 1914 she attended William Merritt Chase's summer school in Carmel, California; and later studied at the San Francisco Institute of Art (1914 to 1917), under John A. Stanton and Frank Van Sloun.
[1] She began exhibiting in California and Seattle in 1915, then studied at the Art Students League under Max Weber, and at the National Academy of Design in New York in 1918.
She pursued additional studies with the highly regarded Frank Duveneck at the Art Academy of Cincinnati, and like may other young artists, spent a few months painting in Paris.
Painted before 1919, it is a striking image that merges realism with a flat modernist perspective, contrasting darker hues of red and black with pale purple and yellow.
In 1921 Crow brought to Paris several of her paintings of Southwest subject matter, including her very large canvas, Eagle Dance, San Ildefonso, of 1919.
After returning to the United States she divided her rime between Seattle, where she opened a studio, San Francisco, and Santa Fe.