Charlotta Bass’s husband would sometimes warn her that she was going to get him killed. She would remind him it would be for a good cause. In her memoir she mentions a night when eight members of the Ku Klux Klan attempted to enter the locked door of her office at the California Eagle, then

Whether in the studio or en plein air, painting has taught me how to look more closely at the world. I paint from life, meaning I look at the thing itself, but I also paint from photos, memories, imagination, or some cobbled-together combination, which is really just another way of painting from life.

Plein air painting is more demanding than it