By Brenda Cusick

 

Can you imagine a well-born woman living in Manhattan during the Victorian era moving to the sparsely populated Hopi Mesas in Northern Arizona? Prescott pioneer Kate Thomson Cory did exactly that in 1905. Cory was a university-trained painter and photographer who taught young ladies during New York’s “Gilded Age” at prestigious Cooper Union College. At a meeting of the Pen and Brush club she met a fellow artist, Louis Akin. He convinced her to travel west and join an artist colony he was putting together at the Hopi Mesas.

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