11 Facts About Vera Allison

Vera A Allison known as Vera Gaethke, was an American Modernist jeweler, and abstract painter.

Vera Allison was a co-founder of the Metal Arts Guild of San Francisco, a non-profit, arts educational organization.

Vera Allison was born December 5,1902, in San Francisco.

When she was returning to work after a period of maternity leave, Vera Allison took adult education classes in jewelry and studied under Loyola Lawson Fourtane of Sausalito.

In 1951, Vera Allison was one of the founding members of the Metal Arts Guild of San Francisco, a metal arts organization led by Margaret De Patta.

From 1967 to 1986, Vera Allison lived in Mill Valley, Marin County, California; where she was an active member of the Marin Society of Artists.

Vera Allison was part of the group exhibition, Jewelry by Peter Macchiarini, Vera Allison, and Irena Brynner at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

In 1962, Vera Allison was part of an annual members group exhibition with the Society of San Francisco Women Artists arts organizations at SFMoMA, where she won an award for her jewelry.

Vera Allison continued to be active in the arts into the late 1970s.

In 1986, Vera Allison moved to New Mexico to live with her daughter.

Vera Allison died on August 20,1993, in La Lama in San Cristobal, New Mexico at the age of 90.