The only female member of the Taos Society of Artists, Critcher first visited New Mexico in 1922. She was best known for portraits, along with some floral works and landscapes. She studied art in New York, Washington, DC, and Paris; she taught in France and at the Corcoran School of Art. When she was elected to the Society in 1924, she wrote to a friend:

“It’s nice to be the first and only woman in [the TSA]. I am feeling very good about it.”

Also in 1924, Critcher painted Juanita Lucero and her Children, now in the collection of the Eiteljorg Museum in Indianapolis. Critcher painted Lucero’s portrait on several occasions, and she modeled for other TSA members as well. Lucero may have been an artist in her own right, active during the same years as some of the more well-known Taos Pueblo painters including Albert Looking Elk Martinez, Juan Mirabal, and Albert Lujan.