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Art Index |

This page is devoted to showing the artwork of my mother, Violet
Christenson, who is herself a very competent artist. My mother didn't
really get serious about art until I went off to college when she
started taking a few classes. She mostly does watercolor but also oil
paintings. She has become particularly well known for her landscapes
with old houses and barns. She has won a number of awards for her work
and she taught a few students privately in her home until over
eighty years of age. She presently is living with Elroy
Christenson. She continues to do watercolors at the age of 91.
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"Blue
Bonnets and Stone House in central Texas", |
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Vi Christenson by the staff photographer, Grand Prairie News |
1997, 21 Aug., Thursday - "Victorian section of the Grand
Prairie News featuring Vi
Christenson with color photos and a description of her goals and
activities in watercolor and oil painting. "I've drawn all of my live,
but I didn't really start painting until in the 1960's. .... I started
with oils to learn the colors, because I had always worked with pencil
and pen."
"I'm Proud of what I do. It's not fancy, but I like it," she said. "I've been really lucky to get awards. I really just enter them because I like to show by work. |
