Career
She is best known for her paintings of indigenous people in the South Seas during the late 1920s. These paintings are in the custody of the Phoebe Apperson Hearst Museum of Anthropology on University of California Berkeley"s campus in Berkeley, California. They both returned to the United States in 1930. The two books about their experiences were published in the 1940s.
In 1943 Mytinger bought a one-bedroom studio and became a permanent resident of Monterey, California an art colony on California"s Pacific coastline.