18th Jun, 2025 13:00
British & International Pictures
* KATHARINE (KATE) CAMERON RSW RE (SCOTTISH 1874 - 1965)
POPPIES IN SILK ATTIRE
watercolour on paper, signed, titled label verso
mounted, framed and under glass
image size 29cm x 21cm, overall size 46cm x 36cm
Handwritten label verso
Note: Painter, printmaker and book illustrator. Born in Glasgow, sister of the artist D Y Cameron. Studied at Glasgow School of Art, 1898, under Fra Newbery, then at Atelier Colarossi, Paris. Exhibited flower paintings and landscapes prolifically in Britain and abroad, including RA, Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, RSW, Walker’s Galleries. The Tate Gallery, Victoria & Albert Museum, British Museum and Library of Congress, Washington, in America, hold her work. Contributed to The Yellow Book and illustrated a number of other titles, including James Aitken’s In a City Garden, 1913, and Iolo Williams’ Where the Bee Sucks, 1929; her husband, Arthur Kay, was more enthusiastic about this work than she was, for she preferred painting. Had a one-man show at the Annan Gallery, Glasgow, 1959. Lived in Edinburgh.
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