Martha Jane Canary in fringed buckskin, bowler hat, rifle up on her shoulder, standing on a green ground with BUFFALO BILL'S WILD WEST painted large behind her and running right off the edge.
She is inside the advertisement. The show she toured with is literally the background she cannot step out of, and off to the left a small figure rides a white horse with one arm raised, doing the act.
Her line sits at her hip. If a girl wants to be a legend, she should go ahead and be one. DEADWOOD across the bottom, where she asked to be buried.
Wild Women of the Wild West. Three women who were turned into an act while they were still alive, painted as the show bills that did it. Real name in brackets under the stage name, the dates they got, and their own words somewhere on the sheet.
24 × 36 in · Latex, acrylic, gouache, charcoal and coffee on paper · 2026
Martha Jane Canary in fringed buckskin, bowler hat, rifle up on her shoulder, standing on a green ground with BUFFALO BILL'S WILD WEST painted large behind her and running right off the edge.
She is inside the advertisement. The show she toured with is literally the background she cannot step out of, and off to the left a small figure rides a white horse with one arm raised, doing the act.
Her line sits at her hip. If a girl wants to be a legend, she should go ahead and be one. DEADWOOD across the bottom, where she asked to be buried.
Wild Women of the Wild West. Three women who were turned into an act while they were still alive, painted as the show bills that did it. Real name in brackets under the stage name, the dates they got, and their own words somewhere on the sheet.
24 × 36 in · Latex, acrylic, gouache, charcoal and coffee on paper · 2026
