Kathleen Salmond | |
Birth Name: | Kathleen Lucy Salmond |
Birth Date: | 21 August 1895 |
Birth Place: | Dunedin, New Zealand |
Death Place: | Dunedin, New Zealand |
Relatives: | Louis Salmond (father) John Salmond (uncle) William Salmond (grandfather) Jeremy Salmond (nephew) Robin Allan (cousin) |
Field: | Painting – Watercolour |
Training: | Dunedin Art School, Slade School of Fine Art, St Martin's School of Art |
Works: | The Sunlit Farm |
Kathleen Lucy Salmond (21 August 1895 – 5 May 1946) was a New Zealand artist, born in Dunedin.[1]
Salmond was born in Dunedin, the eldest daughter of architect Louis Salmond.[2] She studied at the Dunedin Art School (now Otago Polytechnic). She travelled to the UK and spent a year at the Harvey-Proctor Art School in Cornwall (run by Ernest Procter and Harold Harvey), and the one year at the Slade School of Fine Art and St Martin's School of Art.[3]
Salmond worked primarily with watercolour. She exhibited with:
Her work The Sunlit Farm was included in the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition, Dunedin, 1925–6.[9] [10] She also exhibited works in London at the British Empire Art Exhibition and the Coronation Exhibition.
Works by Salmond are held in the collection of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery.[11]
Salmond died in Dunedin on 5 May 1946, and she was buried at Andersons Bay Cemetery.[2]
An artist file for Salmond is held at:
Also see: