Violet Christenson"s 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.

"Blue Bonnets and Stone House in central Texas", transparent and opaque watercolor on paper 16" x 20" © Violet Christenson 1995, collection of Elroy Christenson

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.