Katharine Kimball Explained

Katharine Kimball
Birth Name:Katharine Lyman Kimball
Birth Date:17 April 1866
Birth Place:Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire, United States
Death Place:Bath, England
Nationality:American
Training:National Academy of Design, Royal College of Art
Known For:Etcher 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.

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
1902LondonMessrs. Clifford & Co.[16]
1906LondonRyder Gallery[17]
1907LondonRoyal Academy cat. no. 1370 [18]
1909LondonRoyal Academy cat. no. 1318
1910ParisAmerican Women's Art Association[19]
1910LondonRoyal Academy cat. nos. 1297, 1309
1911LondonRoyal Academy cat. no. 1400
1911ParisSalon d'Automne[20]
1911New York CityKatz Gallery[21]
1912LondonRoyal Academy cat. no. 1523
1913LondonRoyal Academy cat. no. 1475
1913Chicago, ILRouiller's Exhibitions[22]
1913Chicago, ILChicago Society of Etchers[23]
1914LondonRoyal Academy cat. no. 1133
1915LondonRoyal Academy of ArtsRoyal Academy cat. no. 310
1915Los Angeles, CAExposition Park[24]
1916LondonRoyal Society of Painter-Etchers
1917LondonRoyal Academy of ArtsRoyal Academy cat. no. 406
1919LondonRoyal Academy of ArtsRoyal Academy cat. no. 1202
1931BathVictoria Art Gallery

Bibliography

Kimball was the author or illustrator of several books:

Notes and References

  1. News: Deaths. 23 March 1949. The Times. London, England.
  2. News: Ward. Humphry. Paris. 13 January 1905. The Times Literary Supplement. 14.
  3. News: 4 July 1912. The Times Literary Supplement. 274.
  4. Book: Sara Gray. Dark River. 2019. British Women Artists. A Biographical Dictionary of 1000 Women Artists in the British Decorative Arts . 978-1-911121-63-3.
  5. Book: The City Re-Imagined: Architectural Prints from the 19th and 20th Centuries. La Salle University Art Museum. 2007. Philadelphia, PA.
  6. News: 11 February 1909. The Times.
  7. News: Presented to Bath. 9 February 1946. Bath Weekly Chronicle and Herald. 12.
  8. News: Round the Town. 6 May 1950. Bath Weekly Chronicle and Herald. 2.
  9. Web site: Your Search Results Search the Collections Victoria and Albert Museum. collections.vam.ac.uk. 2020-03-10.
  10. Web site: Katharine Kimball Smithsonian American Art Museum. americanart.si.edu. en-US. 2020-03-10.
  11. Web site: Katharine Kimball. portlandartmuseum.us. 2020-03-10.
  12. Web site: Results – Advanced Search Objects – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. collections.mfa.org. 2020-03-10.
  13. Web site: Katherine Kimball. whitney.org. en. 2020-03-10.
  14. Web site: Advanced Search - Katharine Kimball. The British Museum. 10 March 2020.
  15. Book: Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine. 1917. R.R. Bowker Company. en.
  16. News: Fine Art Gossip. 15 March 1902. The Athenaeum.
  17. News: Fine-Art Gossip. 17 November 1906. The Athenaeum.
  18. 1907. American Art News. 5. 31. 1–16. 25590279. 1944-0227. American Art News, Vol. 5, no. 31.
  19. News: Show Women Artists' Work: Americans' Paintings and Sculpture Attract Marked Attention. 13 February 1910. The New York Times.
  20. 1911. American Art News. 10. 1. 1–8. 25590760. 1944-0227. American Art News, Vol. 10, no. 1.
  21. 1911. American Art News. 9. 24. 1–8. 25590703. 1944-0227. American Art News, Vol. 9, no. 24.
  22. 1913. American Art News. 11. 16. 1–12. 25590974. 1944-0227. American Art News, Vol. 11, no. 16.
  23. 1913. American Art News. 11. 23. 1–12. 25590999. 1944-0227. American Art News, Vol. 11, no. 23.
  24. L.. C. A.. Tolerton. Hill. 1915. CURRENT NOTES. Arts & Decoration (1910-1918). 5. 5. 197–198. 43806102. 2472-6060.
  25. Review: The Story of London by Henry B. Wheatley. The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art. 98. 17 September 1904. 369.
  26. https://archive.org/details/storyofbrussels00gill Story of Brussels