Biography from Crocker Art Museum Store:
| Painter. Born in Rugby, TN on May 27, 1896 of English and Canadian parents. Olive Graham spent her childhood in Ontario, Canada and, at age 16, entered a convent school in Dorreselle Abbey in Ghent, Holland. In 1919 she wed Frederick Fetherstonhaugh in NYC at the Little Church Around the Corner. Two years later the couple moved to San Francisco. There she began art studies at the CSFA under Boynton followed by study at the CCAC, and with Hans Hofmann at UC Berkeley. Moving across the bay to Belvedere in 1923, she continued to paint and teach in her home there until age 90. Working in oil and pastel, her subjects include still lifes and landscapes. During the 1950s she did a few mosaic murals. She died in San Francisco on Aug. 20, 1986. Exh: Mann Society of Artists, 1920s; GGIE, 1939; SFAA and SF Women Artists, 1940s. lnvw; The Ark, 8-27-1986(obit).
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