Virginia Belle Gould

1917 - 2014

BiographyThe daughter of an itinerant Baptist minister, Virginia Gould, urban scene watercolorist, lived in many parts of the country as a child. In the 1930s, she studied art with John French at San Jose State University and then earned a Master's Degree at the University of California, Berkeley.

She taught color and design classes at the University of California, Davis, and in the 1940s was active in the art scene in Berkeley. In addition to watercolors, she also did balsa sculptures and silk-screen textiles. She married twice; first to Edward Kay who died in 1968 and then to James McCray.

Source:
Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940"
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