Background
Rogers-Napier, Olive Verna was born on October 2, 1902 in Linwood, New Jersey, United States. Daughter of George Herbert and Mary Margaret (Sutton) Rogers.
Rogers-Napier, Olive Verna was born on October 2, 1902 in Linwood, New Jersey, United States. Daughter of George Herbert and Mary Margaret (Sutton) Rogers.
Student, School Industrial Arts, Trenton, New Jersey, 1921. Student, Graphic Sketch Club, Philadelphia, 1924. Graduate, Pennsylvania Museum and School Industrial Art, 1925.
Graduate, Beaux Arts Institute of Design, 1925.
Art critic, lecturer, demonstrator, juror, Nevada and California, since 1955.
Member advisory board Annual San Francisco Art Festival, 1954-1966, vice president, 1958-1959, treasurer, 1960-1966. Chairman artists' advisory board Northern section California State Exposition and Fair, 1961-1970, chairman emeritus, since 1971. Member Society Western Artists (president 1959, board directors 1955-1961), National League American Pen Women (1st prize water color competition 1959, 1st vice president 1958, 62), Marin Society Artists (board directors 1958-1961, 65, artists' advisory council 1967-1968), East Bay Artists Association (advisory board 1955-1971), Hayward Art Association, Santa Cruz Art League, Oakland Art Association, Oakland Museums Association, Humane Society Marin, National Federation Wildlife, de Young Museum Society, Patrons of Art and Music.
Lodges: Order of Eastern Star.
Married Walter Simpson Napier, December 9, 1941.