Rebecca Salsbury James

Following her divorce from Strand, James moved to Taos, New Mexico where she fell in with a group that included Mabel Dodge Luhan, Dorothy Brett, and Frieda Lawrence.

In addition to Stieglitz and Georgia O'Keeffe, the Strands were close to Marsden Hartley, Arthur Dove and Helen Torr, and Gaston and Isabel Lachaise.

In 1926, the Strands traveled to the west, visiting Mesa Verde National Park and cities including Denver, Santa Fe, and Taos.

[13] James created artwork in pastel and charcoal, but for the majority of her career she worked primarily in the technique of reverse painting on glass.

She also participated in the revival of the Spanish colonial colcha stitch, which she learned in the late 1930s from her friend and neighbor Jesusita Perrault.

The living world about one—the skies, the land, people, grasses, trees—can be imbued with immediate life.”[15] James participated in her first group exhibition at the Opportunity Gallery in New York City in 1928.