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Virginia Woolley

Virginia B. Woolley (1884 - 1971) was active/lived in California.  Virginia Woolley is known for Coastal landscape, figure, etcher.

The following biographical information has been provided by Lisa Rubin Rail
(b. 1951), the artist's great niece:

VIRGINIA WOOLLEY was born in 1884, in Selma, Alabama. She had three siblings: Frances (Woolley) Farmer, and James Albert Woolley, Jr. (my grandfather), and Andrew Price Woolley. She studied art in Chicago, then
later abroad, chiefly in Paris.

By the late 1920's or early 1930's she had settled in Laguna Beach, living for many years in a large wooden house on a cliff overlooking the Pacific Coast Highway. She later bought a house at 615 Seaview, where she lived till her death in 1971.

She made a living by working in the Knox Leidy Pottery factory at 1936 S. Coast Boulevard in Laguna Beach. On Sundays, she and other local artists displayed their paintings in Heisman Park. She was instrumental in forming the basis of what was to become the Annual Festival of Arts. In today's Laguna Art Museum, there is a miniature of the museum's original building, w   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3713 characters.]  Artist bio

Artist auction records

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