Maria Chabot (1913–2001), was an advocate for Native American arts, a rancher, and a friend of Georgia O'Keeffe.

She led the restoration of her house in Abiquiú, New Mexico, and took the photograph of O'Keeffe entitled Women Who Rode Away, in which the artist was on the back of a motorcycle driven by Maurice Grosser.

Chabot has documented and promoted Spanish colonial and Native American art in the Southwest and facilitated the development of the Santa Fe Indian Market from small fairs throughout the state.

[7] After graduating from high school, Chabot took a job as copywriter at a San Antonio department store and also wrote short stories.

[10][11] She traveled in 1933 to Mexico City to pursue her interests in literature and art[2] and visit a relative, Emily Edwards, who lived there at the time.

Through Stewart, Chabot met many influential, progressive people, like friend and benefactor Mary Cabot Wheelwright, archaeologist Jesse L. Nusbaum, and Native American pottery expert Kenneth M.

[3] With these agencies and as part of a Works Progress Administration (WPA) initiative, she photographed and documented Spanish Colonial and Native American arts and crafts in the Southwest[1][3] and territorial architecture in New Mexico.

[1][10] Initially, local businesses opposed the Native American markets, which were established by Chabot to promote their works.

She worked then at the federal Indian Arts and Crafts Board where she established cooperative marketing organizations on reservations.

[1] Chabot lived at Mary Cabot Wheelwright's Los Luceros property in Alcalde, New Mexico, after then end of her relationship with Dorothy Stewart.

[19][23] In 1961, Chabot married radio astronomer Dana K. Bailey who works at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.