Novella King was known for many years as an Albuquerque artist. She and several other female artists opened a gallery in Albuquerque Old Town in the 1960s or so and featured their own works. Two of the other artists were Betty Sabo and Carol McElroy. Sabo and King were students of famous Albuquerque artist Carl Von Hassler.
Novella King often painted scenes from Placitas and Corrales as well as other surrounding areas of Albuquerque. This could be a scene of an adobe house backed by the Sandia Mountains, or since tin-roof houses are more common in villages north of Santa Fe, it is possible that this is a northern New Mexico village with the Sangre de Cristo or Taos Mountains in the background.