Portrait painter Mary Foote studied painting at Yale and later in Paris with John Singer Sergeant. Though she was often commissioned to paint portraits of well-known individuals, she gave up painting in 1928 when she moved to Zurich to become Carl Jung’s student and patient. Her notes from his talks were the basis for his text The Visions Seminars (1976). Muriel Draper, Foote’s fellow guest at Mabel Dodge’s Villa Curonia, noted that her presence among the mélange of guests at the Villa was quite welcome: “I cannot conceive of more conflicting psychological elements meeting under similar conditions without an explosion. Almost everyone was in love or hate and only Mary Foote could come cutting through the snarled air like a cool smooth silver fruit-knife, severing at the crucial moments the crossed threads that were in danger of becoming firmly knotted entanglements.”1