Hatton often painted still life compositions using flowers from the garden that her mother tended at their home on 416 S. Grant Street in Old Town Fort Collins. The blue vase in the foreground may have been fired by Hatton herself, but the black-on-black pot behind it was made by Maximiliana “Ana” Martinez, a potter from San Ildefonso Pueblo who was the older sister of famed potter Maria Martinez. Hatton had a long-standing interest in Native American art: she taught Native American art (as well as Mesoamerican and Asian art) in her art history courses long before other art programs included non-Western art in their surveys, and in the 1950s, she invited Maria Martinez to Fort Collins as a visiting artist. The inscription on this watercolor indicates it was a gift to her great-niece, Susan Elizabeth Gillin, forty years after Hatton had painted it.