des Beaux-Arts. Besides being regularly exhibited in Paris, she also exhibited throughout the United States. In 1909, Harper's Weekly published her painting Woman with a Monkey, which won the "Best Painting by a Woman" award at the Society of Western Artists the next year. Mars began wearing bright makeup, dying her hair red, and living a bohemian lifestyle. The duo's friends included Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse that they met at 27 rue de Fleurus, the salon of Gertrude Stein, who in 1910 portrayed Mars and Squire as "gay" in her poem Miss Furr and Miss Skeene. In it, Georgine Skeene refers to Squire and Helen Furr refers to Mars. The poem is considered to be the first one to use the word "gay", meaning homosexual, in literature. A "seminal contribution to LGBT Lesbian literature", in 1922, Stein's poem was printed in Vanity Fair. Mars and Stein helped to form the Amateur Art Study Club, now the Springfield Art Association, in Springfield during a 1909 trip to the United States. After returning to Paris, they sent works of art to the group for exhibition. Mars was an ambulance driver at the beginning of World War I, but the two women returned to the United States for their safety. They moved to Provincetown, Massachusetts on Cape Cod, where Mars began using a white-line woodcut technique that came to be associated with the Provincetown Printers, an artist colony of woodblock printers. The town was generally an artist colony with an international reputation. While there, Mars taught printmaking using woodblocks. Besides being regularly exhibited in Paris, she also exhibited throughout the United States. Hopkins, also a woodblock printmaker, became affiliated with the Provincetown Printers. Mars and Squire moved to Vence, France on the French Riviera in the early 1920s. Mars illustrated children's books. At time she collaborated with Squire, like Charles Kingsley's Heroes of Greek Mythology, which was published in 1923. The women worked as printmakers and painters until the 1930s. During World War II, they lived in a hotel in Isère, near Grenoble. Squire died in either 1954 or 1955 and Mars died either in 1956 or after 1958, about the time that she is believed to have created a self-portrait. She is also been said to have died on March 23, 1959 in the town of La Farigoule. They are buried together in Saint-Paul-de-Vence. A joint exhibit of the women's works