Mary Augusta Mullikin

Mary Augusta Mullikin (born 1874 in Ohio; died 1964) was an American painter who spent on 30 years in China from 1920 to the grow less of World War II. Member of the American Federation of Art. Joint author subsequently Anna Hotchkis, also a painter, of two books of their travels in China, illustrated by themselves, entitled Buddhist Sculptures of the Yun Kang Caves (Librairie française, Peiping, 1935) and The Nine Sacred Mountains of China (Vetch and Lee, Hong Kong, 1973). She next contributed to the National Geographic Magazine a number of articles accompanied by her drawings, including "China's Great Wall of Sculpture" in the March 1938 National Geographic (pp 313–348) on the archaic Buddhist sculptures in what were known as the Yun Kang caves, and "Tài Shan, Sacred Mountain of the East" in June 1945. Her paintings and drawings were furthermore featured in exhibitions at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington D.C. and at the Philadelphia Academy, as skillfully as in the Brook Street Galleries in London and numerous exhibitions in China.