A three piece composition of native New Mexico tree pieces that display natural gnarls and lines from wind and exposure to nature, 8 in. tall X 5 in. wide at base, warm brown patina, signed on base and with exhibition identification label from "Museum of New Mexico Art Gallery, 39th Annual Exhibition" attached to bottom of piece.

Ina Sizer Cassidy was an American writer, sculptor, suffragist, and teacher. She was born in 1869 in Bent County, Colorado on the Sizer Ranch along the Purgatoire River. She was educated in Las Animas and Pueblo public schools and by private teachers. She had no formal training in the arts (sculpture and painting). While working in Denver, she met the artist Gerald Cassidy. Their mutual interests in painting and art led to theireventual marriage and consequent move to Santa Fe in 1912. Ina Sizer Cassidy was involved with numerous Southwestern cultural institutions; Director of the NM Federal Writer's Project from 1935-1939, writer of a popular monthly column in New Mexico Magazine called "Art and Artists". She exhibited her sculpture in numerous NM exhibitions from 1928-1954. She died at age 96 in 1965.