Jack, Fanny, and Kate Cory were creative siblings, and are linked to the Benton group of artists. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_(Alice's_Adventures_in_Wonderland)
http://www.smokimuseum.org/kate_t_cory.htm
http://www.prescottcorral.org/TT5/V2KateCory.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Cory
Born in Waukegan, Illinois, she was 14 when she went art school in Helena, Montana. At the age of 17, she arrived in New York and enrolled at the Art Students League.
Fanny Cory was related to Kate Cory, particularly noted for her photographs and paintings of the Hopi.[5]
“Rosamond recalls that Jack Cory and his sister Fanny Y. Cory, cartoonist, started him on his writing career.”
In looking for traces of my Muse, Rena Easton, in Montana, I found what can be described as the Rosamond Holy Grail in Helena Montana. My grandfather lived in Helena and says he was inspired to write by Jack Cory, a political cartoonist and equestrian artist, and his sister Fanny Y. Cory, a famous illustrator who lived in a secluded ranch in Montana.
There was an art show of four generations of this family. This is the vision I had for my family when I became a Pre-Raphaelite. Christine Rosamond Benton did several Fairy paintings, as did Drew, who is employed rendering avatars for fantasy games.
Alas we have a true genealogy that traces the Rosamond Family Muse from the Cory family, to my grandfather, to me, to my sister, and to…
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