biography of Grace Libby VOLLMER (1884-1977)

Birth place: Hopkinton, MA.

Death place: Santa Barbara, CA

Addresses: Laguna Beach, CA; Santa Barbara, CA

Profession: Painter

Studied: Otis Art Inst., with E. Vysekal and E.R. Shrader; with H. Hofmann in Munich & Berkeley, CA; with E. Payne and Anna Hills

Exhibited: Orange Co. (CA) Fair, 1927 (prize); Laguna Beach AA, 1935 (prize); 1936 (prize); Santa Barbara Mus. of Art, 1952 (solo)

Member: Laguna Beach AA; Calif. AC

Comments: Specialty: still lifes, landscapes, portraits and figures. Daughter of a wealthy Boston publisher, she showed an interest in art at a very early age. Married in 1906, she and her family moved to Southern Calif. in the early 1920s.

Sources: WW40; Hughes, Artists in California, 579, reports year of birth as 1884.