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June Isaminger was born at Ann Arbour, Mich. She studied art in Washington, D.C. at the Abbott Art School and later, the Concoran School of Fine Arts. Privately, she studied oil painting with George J. Hamilton, lecturer and artist at the Phillip's Collection, Washington, and watercolour with Eliot O'Hara. From 1945 to 1951 she worked as medical illustrator at the National Institute of Health, Bethesda, Md. where she met and married Rodney Olson in 1949. From 1967 to 1971 June Olson served as secretary for the Washington Water Color Association and was a founding member and president of Spectrum Gallery, in 1969-70. The Olsons spent their summers in Lunenburg, N.S. beginning in 1967 and moved there permanently in 1972. June Olson became active in the cultural life of Lunenburg County, opening her own gallery and teaching for the county's Department of Continuing Education. She served on the board of directors for Visual Arts Nova Scotia and the Lunenburg Heritage Art Gallery Committee. She is particularly known for her watercolour street scenes of Lunenburg as well as Mahone Bay and Chester. Since 1980, Olson has taught watercolour painting privately. As of 2002 she was residing in Chester Basin, N.S.