This biography from the Archives of AskART:
| Virginia Lillian Smallwood was born in Missouri in 1876. By the late 1890s Smallwood had moved to San Francisco. She studied at the Mark Hopkins Art Institute until it burned in 1906. She then moved across the bay to Oakland and lived there until 1911 or longer.
Exh: Mechanics' Inst. (SF), 1899; SFAA, 1900.
| Source:
Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940"
City Directory; Census
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