The school Académie Colarossi even accepted female students and allowed them to draw from the nude male model. Colarossi was as an alternative to the government-sanctioned École des Beaux Arts that had, in the eyes of many promising young artists at the time, become far too conservative. Together with her husband David Wallin she travelled for studies for longer or shorter time, to London in 1905, Paris 1905–1906 and 1910–1911, Italy 1908–1910, Germany 1905, 1906 and 1908, Denmark 1908.