141:; the family moved to Fort Worth when McVeigh was a child. She was the second of four children. McVeigh attended Fort Worth public schools and, after graduating high school, was hired as a teacher at the Walter A. Huffman School in downtown Fort Worth. She was an active participant in Fort Worth society, hosting parties, performing with the Clio Club and volunteering with the
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In 1932, McVeigh founded the Fort Worth School of Fine Arts with fellow local sculptor and fellow
Washington University alumna Evaline Sellors; McVeigh taught figure drawing and etching there. McVeigh and Sellors were soon joined by Fort Worth artist Wade Jolley. The school was located in the Little
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Sellors were also founding members of the Fort Worth Artists Guild, the first Fort Worth organization to exhibit the work of local artists, in 1934. By 1937, McVeigh was also the chair of the Fort Worth Woman's Club art department.
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From approximately 1940 to 1949, McVeigh worked in a local frame shop; she owned her own frame shop on
Throckmorton Street in downtown Fort Worth from 1951 until 1962. She also operated a home studio that housed her massive Sturges
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Society of American Graphic Artists, Dallas Print Club, Fort Worth Art Association, Prairie Printmakers, California Society of Etchers, Printmakers Guild of Texas, and the Southern States Art League.
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Printmakers Guild, later called Texas Printmakers, in response to being excluded from the male-dominated Lone Star Printmakers; the others were
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printmaking, and exhibited the resulting works at Fort Worth's
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Print Show along with former student, Bror Utter, and the
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