Large framed Grace Carpenter Hudson (1865-1937) oil on canvas painting depicting a Native American figure holding a child with faint trees in the background. Signed lower left, "copyright symbol / G. Hudson / 23". Verso, "580 / G. Hudson / Ukiah". Dimensions: 28"h x 22"w; (overall) 35.25"h x 30.25"w. Processing and shipping within the continental U.S. $175.00 plus 1.5% replacement cost insurance.  Grace Carpenter Hudson (1865-1937) was born to well-educated pioneer parents in Potter Valley, California, some 130 miles north of San Francisco in rural Mendocino County. She showed an early talent for drawing that was developed by professional training in San Francisco in the early 1880s at the San Francisco School of Design, where she excelled in portraiture. She returned to Ukiah and married John Hudson, a physician for the San Francisco and North Pacific Railroad that had its terminus in the town. With John's encouragement she began painting the local Pomo Indian peoples whom she had known since a child. Her 1891 portrait of a sleeping Pomo baby, entitled "National Thorn," was the first in her series of numbered oil paintings, that grew to over 680 works by the time of her death in 1937. Very good with minor craquelure - greatest in lower quarter of canvas.