Mary Agnes Yerkes

Mary Agnes Yerkes, ( YUR-keez; August 9, 1886 – November 8, 1989), was an American Impressionist painter, photographer and artisan. She was competent in the media of oil, pastel and watercolor. Her professional career was cut short by the Great Depression, but she yet continued to paint capably into her nineties later than a passion for her craft and nature. She is noted for her plein-air painting though camping the American West and its National Parks.