Violet Emma Vimpany Sold at Auction Prices

Violet Emma Vimpany(1886- 1979) Australia - (Still Life Fruit and Spoon)

Vimpany painted in oils and watercolours, made etchings, and was an active member of the Art Society of Tasmania, exhibiting with it from 1932 to 1975. Painter, etcher and monumental mason, was born Violet Emma Alomes in Forcett, Tasmania, in 1886. A painter by training and a monumental mason by chance, she studied art with Lucien Dechaineux at Hobart Technical College in 1928 and 1931-32, later sharing a studio with fellow students Mildred Lovett , Florence Rodway , Edith Holmes , Dorothy Stoner and Ethel M. Nicholls.