Katharine Kimball

Katharine Kimball A.B.E. (17 April 1866 – 19 March 1949)[1]) was an American artist, illustrator, and etcher, who spent most of her life in England. She is best known for her drawings and etchings of urban and rural landscapes in England and Europe. Many of her images were used to illustrate history and travel publications, such as Paris and Its Story, by T. Okey,[2] and The Story of Canterbury, by G.R. Stirling Taylor.[3]

Life and works

Kimball was born in Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire and spent some time in Boston, Massachusetts before studying at the National Academy of Design in New York and then at the Royal College of Art in London.[4][5] Her first solo exhibition was in London at the Clifford Gallery in 1902.[4] In 1909 she was elected an associate member of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers.[6][4] She lived in Bath for over twenty years, and near the end of her life made substantial gifts to the Victoria Art Gallery of works on paper from her own collection.[7][8] She died at St. James's Square Nursing Home in Bath in 1949 after a short illness.[1]

Kimball's works are in the collections of a number of public art institutions, including the Victoria and Albert Museum in London,[9] the Smithsonian American Art Museum,[10] the Portland Art Museum,[11] the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston,[12] the Whitney Museum of American Art,[13] and the British Museum.[14] She was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and donated a number of objects to their museum.[15]

Career
Exhibitions
Year City Institution or gallery
1902 London Messrs. Clifford & Co.[16]
1906 London Ryder Gallery[17]
1907 London Royal Academy[18]
1910 Paris American Women's Art Association[19]
1911 Paris Salon d'Automne[20]
1911 New York City Katz Gallery[21]
1913 Chicago, IL Rouiller's Exhibitions[22]
1913 Chicago, IL Chicago Society of Etchers[23]
1915 Los Angeles, CA Exposition Park[24]

References
  1. "Deaths". The Times. London, England. 23 March 1949.
  2. Ward, Humphry (13 January 1905). "Paris". The Times Literary Supplement. p. 14.
  3. The Times Literary Supplement. 4 July 1912. p. 274. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. Sara Gray (2019). British Women Artists. A Biographical Dictionary of 1000 Women Artists in the British Decorative Arts. Dark River. ISBN 978-1-911121-63-3.
  5. The City Re-Imagined: Architectural Prints from the 19th and 20th Centuries. Philadelphia, PA: La Salle University Art Museum. 2007.
  6. The Times. 11 February 1909. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  7. "Presented to Bath". Bath Weekly Chronicle and Herald. 9 February 1946. p. 12.
  8. "Round the Town". Bath Weekly Chronicle and Herald. 6 May 1950. p. 2.
  9. "Your Search Results | Search the Collections | Victoria and Albert Museum". collections.vam.ac.uk. Retrieved 2020-03-10.
  10. "Katharine Kimball | Smithsonian American Art Museum". americanart.si.edu. Retrieved 2020-03-10.
  11. "Katharine Kimball". portlandartmuseum.us. Retrieved 2020-03-10.
  12. "Results – Advanced Search Objects – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston". collections.mfa.org. Retrieved 2020-03-10.
  13. "Katherine Kimball". whitney.org. Retrieved 2020-03-10.
  14. "Advanced Search - Katharine Kimball". The British Museum. Retrieved 10 March 2020.
  15. Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine. R.R. Bowker Company. 1917.
  16. "Fine Art Gossip". The Athenaeum. 15 March 1902.
  17. "Fine-Art Gossip". The Athenaeum. 17 November 1906.
  18. American Art News. 5 (31): 1–16. 1907. ISSN 1944-0227. JSTOR 25590279. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  19. "Show Women Artists' Work: Americans' Paintings and Sculpture Attract Marked Attention". The New York Times. 13 February 1910.
  20. American Art News. 10 (1): 1–8. 1911. ISSN 1944-0227. JSTOR 25590760. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  21. American Art News. 9 (24): 1–8. 1911. ISSN 1944-0227. JSTOR 25590703. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  22. American Art News. 11 (16): 1–12. 1913. ISSN 1944-0227. JSTOR 25590974. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  23. American Art News. 11 (23): 1–12. 1913. ISSN 1944-0227. JSTOR 25590999. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  24. L., C. A.; Tolerton, Hill (1915). "CURRENT NOTES". Arts & Decoration (1910-1918). 5 (5): 197–198. ISSN 2472-6060. JSTOR 43806102.
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