Alma Gilbert

Description

The wife of George deForest Brush (1855-1941) had a special challenge because her husband, known for his "modern madonnas", or nude portraits, usually with her as the model, also loved to paint Indians and was much attracted to Indian lore. When the couple first came to Cornish in 1887, they lived in a tepee set up in Saint-Gaudens' field near Blow-Me-Down Brook. Saint Gaudens later told the story of a party he and his friends held in the tepee when the Brushes were absent: "after having eaten all that was proper and drunk much more than was necessary, we danced in glee round the tent in which blazed the bivouac fire. Before long, the tepee went the way of all things."

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