Lot 128: ORIGINAL VIRGINIA FOUCHE BOLTON WATERCOLOR

Original Watercolor on Paper Portrait by Virginia Fouche Bolton (South Carolina,1929-2004). Signed lower right, dated 1976. Measures in frame 19"x25"x2". Image 10"x15". Weight 6 pds. PROVENANCE: A Charleston SC Private Estate. PROVENANCE: A Charleston SC Private Estate. Virginia Fouche Bolton (1929 - 2004) was born in Hartsville, SC and moved to Charleston when she was 14. She received her art degree from Winthrop College and began her teaching career at St. John the Baptist Cathedral School, later teaching at Moultrie, Wando and Bishop England High Schools. She was loved by her students who continuously won art awards throughout South Carolina, many of them developing careers on their own as artists and teachers. During her teaching career, she began to paint professionally and in 1976 , she and her husband Don opened an art gallery to showcase her work on Meeting Street in Charleston. Her sensitive and colorful renditions of cityscapes and flower women have long been favorites of people who visited the city. In 1972, she was the recipient of the Charleston Scientific and Cultural Educational Fund Award, which allowed her to spend two months in Greece to paint. She continued to win numerous local and national awards and was accepted in to the Southern Watercolor Society. In 1981 she received a Masters in Art Teaching degree from Rhode Island School of Design.