Olga Sears

On August 6,1906, Olga Sears was born the daughter of Mary K. and Ignatius M. sears, a shoemaker in Framingham, Massachusetts. By 1928 she was attending night school at the New England School of design and working at the Pinkham Press as a silkscreen artist. At age 25, Olga was posing for portrait and sculpture classes at the Museum of Fine Arts School and attending night classes.

From 1931-39, Olga worked at Jordan Marsh Company as a display artist and representative in the interior decorating department. It was during this time period that she started designing Christmas cards for private customers and created woodblock prints for a photo and card shop in Hyannis. In April of 1939, sears enrolled for private lessons with Charles H. Woodbury at his studio at 132 Riverway. Later that fall, she took up teaching art at Dana Hall and Pine Manor School. It was in July 1940 that she first went to Monhegan to study with Margaret Jordan Patterson.

After World War II, she taught at Saint Mary's in the Mountains in Litttleton, New Hampshire during the academic year and taught summer classes at the Museum of Fine Arts School. In 1949, Olga started teaching at the Vesper George School of Art. Miss Sears also frequently traveled to Gloucester where she studied with George Demetrios. Olga began teaching at the Boston Center for Adult Education in 1950.She maintained a studio in Rockport where she was a frequent exhibitor of the Rockport Art Association. Olga Sears died on September 17, 1990 in Boston, Massachusetts.