She studied at Sayre Female Institute, the New England Conservatory of Music and the Art Students League of New York.
[2] She also studied art with Ella Sophonisba Hergesheimer[2][3] — with whom she would remain a close friend[4] — James Carroll Beckwith, Kenyon Cox, William Merritt Chase and Wayman Elbridge Adams.
[8] Her first recorded visit was during the spring and summer of 1911, when she exhibited "tooled leather" at the Annual of the Carmel Arts and Crafts Club.
[12] She made a poster Aunt Jane of Kentucky, which was used to promote Eliza Calvert Hall's daughter's teahouse business.
[7] On May 18, 1892, she married Robert Wells Covington,[14] who had his Bachelor of Law degree and then worked in farming.