Katharine Kimball

For the judge, see Catherine D. Kimball.

Katharine Kimball
Born
Katharine Lyman Kimball

(1866-04-17)17 April 1866
Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire, United States
Died19 March 1949(1949-03-19) (aged 82)
Bath, England
NationalityAmerican
EducationNational Academy of Design, Royal College of Art
Known forEtcher and author

Katharine Kimball A.B.E. (17 April 1866 – 19 March 1949[1]) was an American artist, illustrator, and etcher, who spent most of her later 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]

Biography

Katharine Lyman Kimball was born in Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire the daughter of John Richardson Kimball and Catharine Otis Fulham. As a child Kimball's portrait was painted by George Fuller. Kimball spent some time in Cook County, Illinois and Boston, Massachusetts before studying at the National Academy of Design in New York under her cousin William J. Whittemore and then under Frank Short at the Royal College of Art in London.[4][5] Her first solo exhibition was "A Catalogue of original pen and ink drawings of known and unknown places of interest by Katharine Kimball" 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 from 1915 until her death. 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 donated works to the collections of a number of public art institutions, including: in 1909 and 1911 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] in 1923 to the British Museum[14] and in 1937 9 etchings to The Philadelphia Museum of Art. She was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and she and her sister 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 cat. no. 1370 [18]
1909 London Royal Academy cat. no. 1318
1910 Paris American Women's Art Association[19]
1910 London Royal Academy cat. nos. 1297, 1309
1911 London Royal Academy cat. no. 1400
1911 Paris Salon d'Automne[20]
1911 New York City Katz Gallery[21]
1912 London Royal Academy cat. no. 1523
1913 London Royal Academy cat. no. 1475
1913 Chicago, IL Rouiller's Exhibitions[22]
1913 Chicago, IL Chicago Society of Etchers[23]
1914 London Royal Academy cat. no. 1133
1915 London Royal Academy cat. no. 310
1915 Los Angeles, CA Exposition Park[24]
1916 London Royal Society of Painter-Etchers
1917 London Royal Academy cat. no. 406
1919 London Royal Academy cat. no. 1202
1931 Bath Victoria Art Gallery

Bibliography

Kimball was the author or illustrator of several books:

  • Henry B. Wheatley, The Story of London, (London, 1904)[25]
  • T. Okey, Paris and its Story, (London, J.M. Dent, 1904)
  • Ernest Gilliat-Smith, The Story of Bruxelles, (London, J.M. Dent, 1906).[26]
  • H. MacNaughton-Jones, The Thames, (London, Kegan Paul, 1908)
  • Katharine Kimball, Rochester. A Sketchbook, (London, A. & C. Black, 1912)
  • G. R. Stirling Taylor, The Story of Canterbury, (London, J.M. Dent, 1912)

References

  1. ^ a b "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. {{cite news}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. ^ a b c 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. {{cite news}}: 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 10 March 2020.
  10. ^ "Katharine Kimball | Smithsonian American Art Museum". americanart.si.edu. Retrieved 10 March 2020.
  11. ^ "Katharine Kimball". portlandartmuseum.us. Retrieved 10 March 2020.
  12. ^ "Results – Advanced Search Objects – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston". collections.mfa.org. Retrieved 10 March 2020.
  13. ^ "Katherine Kimball". whitney.org. Retrieved 10 March 2020.
  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, Vol. 5, no. 31". American Art News. 5 (31): 1–16. 1907. ISSN 1944-0227. JSTOR 25590279.
  19. ^ "Show Women Artists' Work: Americans' Paintings and Sculpture Attract Marked Attention". The New York Times. 13 February 1910.
  20. ^ "American Art News, Vol. 10, no. 1". American Art News. 10 (1): 1–8. 1911. ISSN 1944-0227. JSTOR 25590760.
  21. ^ "American Art News, Vol. 9, no. 24". American Art News. 9 (24): 1–8. 1911. ISSN 1944-0227. JSTOR 25590703.
  22. ^ "American Art News, Vol. 11, no. 16". American Art News. 11 (16): 1–12. 1913. ISSN 1944-0227. JSTOR 25590974.
  23. ^ "American Art News, Vol. 11, no. 23". American Art News. 11 (23): 1–12. 1913. ISSN 1944-0227. JSTOR 25590999.
  24. ^ L., C. A.; Tolerton, Hill (1915). "CURRENT NOTES". Arts & Decoration (1910-1918). 5 (5): 197–198. ISSN 2472-6060. JSTOR 43806102.
  25. ^ "Review: The Story of London by Henry B. Wheatley". The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art. 98: 369. 17 September 1904.
  26. ^ Story of Brussels at Internet Archive.