Miss Vivian Aunspaugh, 90, Founder of Art School, Dies.
Funeral services for Miss Vivian Louise Aunspaugh, 90, of 3405 Bryan, who had the first art exhibit ever held in Dallas, will be held at 10 a.m. Friday in Weiland-Merritt Funeral Chapel, 2909 Live Oak, with the Rev. Donald G. Smith officiating. Cremation will follow.
Miss Aunspaugh died Wednesday at her home after a brief illness. She continued to give instruction in the Aunspaugh Art School, which she founded in 1902, until shortly before her death.
A native of Bedford, Virginia, Miss Aunspaugh at 16 was graduated from Shorter College in Rome, Georgia, where she was awarded the Excelsior Art Medal. She received instruction from the Carlarossi Art School of Paris France, and the Art League in New York City, studied under B. R. Fitz in New York and also did work in Chicago and Rome and Florence, Italy.
Miss Aunspaugh came to Texas in 1891 and first taught art, French and penmanship at McKinney College, and for a time she was an instructor in art at the St. Mary's Episcopal College in Dallas. She also taught in school in Bonham and Greenville.
She was a member of the Church of the Incarnation-Episcopal.
Miss Aunspaugh has no known survivors.
Published in the Dallas Morning News on 3-11-1960.
Funeral services for Miss Vivian Louise Aunspaugh, 90, of 3405 Bryan, who had the first art exhibit ever held in Dallas, will be held at 10 a.m. Friday in Weiland-Merritt Funeral Chapel, 2909 Live Oak, with the Rev. Donald G. Smith officiating. Cremation will follow.
Miss Aunspaugh died Wednesday at her home after a brief illness. She continued to give instruction in the Aunspaugh Art School, which she founded in 1902, until shortly before her death.
A native of Bedford, Virginia, Miss Aunspaugh at 16 was graduated from Shorter College in Rome, Georgia, where she was awarded the Excelsior Art Medal. She received instruction from the Carlarossi Art School of Paris France, and the Art League in New York City, studied under B. R. Fitz in New York and also did work in Chicago and Rome and Florence, Italy.
Miss Aunspaugh came to Texas in 1891 and first taught art, French and penmanship at McKinney College, and for a time she was an instructor in art at the St. Mary's Episcopal College in Dallas. She also taught in school in Bonham and Greenville.
She was a member of the Church of the Incarnation-Episcopal.
Miss Aunspaugh has no known survivors.
Published in the Dallas Morning News on 3-11-1960.
Miss Vivian Aunspaugh, 90, Founder of Art School, Dies.
Funeral services for Miss Vivian Louise Aunspaugh, 90, of 3405 Bryan, who had the first art exhibit ever held in Dallas, will be held at 10 a.m. Friday in Weiland-Merritt Funeral Chapel, 2909 Live Oak, with the Rev. Donald G. Smith officiating. Cremation will follow.
Miss Aunspaugh died Wednesday at her home after a brief illness. She continued to give instruction in the Aunspaugh Art School, which she founded in 1902, until shortly before her death.
A native of Bedford, Virginia, Miss Aunspaugh at 16 was graduated from Shorter College in Rome, Georgia, where she was awarded the Excelsior Art Medal. She received instruction from the Carlarossi Art School of Paris France, and the Art League in New York City, studied under B. R. Fitz in New York and also did work in Chicago and Rome and Florence, Italy.
Miss Aunspaugh came to Texas in 1891 and first taught art, French and penmanship at McKinney College, and for a time she was an instructor in art at the St. Mary's Episcopal College in Dallas. She also taught in school in Bonham and Greenville.
She was a member of the Church of the Incarnation-Episcopal.
Miss Aunspaugh has no known survivors.
Published in the Dallas Morning News on 3-11-1960.
Funeral services for Miss Vivian Louise Aunspaugh, 90, of 3405 Bryan, who had the first art exhibit ever held in Dallas, will be held at 10 a.m. Friday in Weiland-Merritt Funeral Chapel, 2909 Live Oak, with the Rev. Donald G. Smith officiating. Cremation will follow.
Miss Aunspaugh died Wednesday at her home after a brief illness. She continued to give instruction in the Aunspaugh Art School, which she founded in 1902, until shortly before her death.
A native of Bedford, Virginia, Miss Aunspaugh at 16 was graduated from Shorter College in Rome, Georgia, where she was awarded the Excelsior Art Medal. She received instruction from the Carlarossi Art School of Paris France, and the Art League in New York City, studied under B. R. Fitz in New York and also did work in Chicago and Rome and Florence, Italy.
Miss Aunspaugh came to Texas in 1891 and first taught art, French and penmanship at McKinney College, and for a time she was an instructor in art at the St. Mary's Episcopal College in Dallas. She also taught in school in Bonham and Greenville.
She was a member of the Church of the Incarnation-Episcopal.
Miss Aunspaugh has no known survivors.
Published in the Dallas Morning News on 3-11-1960.
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