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Born in Charlotte, Michigan, Lydia Dunham Fabian (1857-1947) studied at the Art Students’ League in New York and the Art Institute of Chicago. An accomplished artist and somewhat of a world traveler, presented 34 of her latest oil paintings at an exhibition held at Newcomb, Macklin & Company, Chicago, in August of 1923. Fabian was referenced in the 1930. Who’s Who in American Art. She was also a member of the Santa Fe Society of Artists and is known for her still life, landscape and architecture paintings and photography.

Fabian was an active painter who found inspiration in the peoples of the southwest and was commissioned by Santa Fe Railroad advertising departments to use her illustrations as a means to lure potential passengers from back east to travel to or settle in the West. It was rare at the time for women artists to be hired to work for the railroads. ~Gabriel Abrums

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