She was a California Impressionist and painted still lifes, figures, portraits, and landscapes.
[1] She was the daughter of Anne Lorraine (née Young) and Edgar Howard Libby, both parents had roots in New England going back to the 17th century.
In the 1920s, the Vollmers moved to southern California where Grace studied at Otis College of Art and Design (formally Otis Art Institute) under E. Roscoe Shrader and Edouard Vysekal.
[2] She travelled to Munich where she was a pupil of Hans Hofmann, and continued studies with him in Berkeley in 1930.
[2] Vollmer moved to Laguna Beach where she became active in the art colony and studied with Edgar Payne and Anna Althea Hills.