The "Painter of Trees", Olive Holbert Chaffee, was born on January 9,
1886 in Woodville, Kentucky. She began her formal training in art
with private lessons while still in high school. Later she
studied with Chauncey Ryder and George Conroy in New York. Chaffee
attended the Corcoran Art Gallery School and was later influenced by W.
Humphrey Woolrych in St. Louis and W.A. Pratt in Denver.
Chaffee's
first marriage was to William Gibson in Cairo, Illinois. In the
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