Grace Vollmer

Grace Libby Vollmer (; September 12, 1884 – November 24, 1977) was an American painter active in California and Idaho. She was a California Impressionist and painted still lifes, figures, portraits, and landscapes.

Biography Grace Libby was born on September 12, 1884, in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, and she grew up in Chelsea, Massachusetts. She was the daughter of Anne Lorraine (née Young) and Edgar Howard Libby, both parents had roots in New England going back to the 17th century. In 1906, she married Ralston Vollmer from Idaho. Both the Libby family and Vollmer family were active in the early development of the city of Lewiston, Idaho.

In the 1920s, the Vollmers moved to southern California where Grace studied at Otis College of Art and Design (formally Otis Art Institute) under E. Roscoe Shrader and Edouard Vysekal.

In 1939, the Vollmers moved to Santa Barbara, where she remained until her death on November 24, 1977. Her husband Ralston Vollmer died in 1946, and her two children died young in the 1940s.

She was a member of the Laguna Beach Art Association and the California Art Club.