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Vina Jane Cochran Cames

Vina Jane Cochran Cames (1908 - 1971) was active/lived in California.  Vina Cames is known for Landscape, figure, still life, portrait.

Born in Oakland, California, Melvina Cames, known as Vina, became a painter and lithographer, especially noted for her landscapes of California and Wyoming as well as still lifes, figure studies, and portraits.

She was raised in Oakland and Eureka, California, and in 1925, married Louis Cames, who worked for the railroad. The couple lived in Laramie, Wyoming, and she worked for the Works Progress Administration and the Federal Emergency Relief Administration.

She studied art at the University of Wyoming, and the Colorado Springs Fine Art Center where her teachers were Boardman Robinson, Henry Varnum Poor, and Frank Mechau. In Wyoming, she became well known and won local and national awards. Exhibition venues included the Denver Art Museum, the Corcoran Gallery in Washington DC, and the Artists West of the Mississippi.

She divorced, and by the early 1940s was back in California, where she settled in San Francisco and for many years worked for the National Lead Pai   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2060 characters.]  Artist bio

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