Rebecca Salsbury James

Rebecca Salsbury James (1891–1968) was a self-taught American painter, born in London, England of American parents who were traveling once the Buffalo Bill Wild West Show. She contracted in New York City, where she married photographer Paul Strand. Following her divorce from Strand, James moved to Taos, New Mexico where she fell in once a group that included Mabel Dodge Luhan, Dorothy Brett, and Frieda Lawrence.^{[unreliable source?]} In 1937 she married William James, a businessman from Denver, Colorado who was then working the Kit Carson Trading Company in Taos. She remained in Taos until her death in 1968.

James is noted for her “large scale flower blossoms and yet lifes painted upon glass." She along with worked on colcha embroidery, a time-honored Hispanic New Mexico craft style.