Winifred D. Jackman, watercolorist and painter, was
raised near the Rio Grande River some
twenty miles North of El Paso. In 1905 Rio Grande flooding washed
away her family home causing sacrifice for the family as they
addressed the artistic dreams of their daughter. After
graduation from public schools she moved
to
Massachusetts
to attend the Boston Museum of Fine Arts School, Harvard Art School
the Rockport Art School where she studied under her future husband
Aldro T. Hibbard. She taught art in the El Paso area in private and
schools before returning to Rockport to marry Hibbard in 1925 and to
teach in the Rockport Art School. Her husband, one of Rockport’s
many accomplished artists, expected his new wife to place her art
career second to his his, which she did. Although she painted and
exhibited over her long life, her main efforts were directed to the
support of the art and career of her talented husband. She often
returned to El Paso and was honored with a solo exhibition there in
1928. "Jackie", as she was known to all, lived to see her husband become one of
Rockport's and the East Coast's most popular and successful artists.