Vivian Louise Aunspaugh (born Bedford, Virginia, August 14, 1869 - died Dallas, Texas, March 9, 1960) was an American painter and art teacher who founded the first art school in the American Southwest to use live models, nude and draped.
At sixteen Aunspaugh was awarded the Excelsior Art Medal when she graduated from Shorter College (in Rome, Georgia).
[1] As a painter, Aunspaugh usually worked in pastels and watercolors and made landscapes, flowers, figures, portraits, and miniatures.
[2] From 1912 to 1932 she ran the annual art exhibits of the Dallas Women's Forum, which were influential in introducing collectors to Texas artists.
[1] Aunspuagh and her students formed the Vivian L. Aunspaugh Art Club in 1945; it held its first exhibition in 1946.