About Kate O'Meallie

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Kitty O'Meallie
  • Biography

    The following information was submitted in April of 2006 by her daughter Kathryn Launey:

    Kitty O'Meallie (nee Kate Morrison Chamness) was born in Bennettsville, SC. Despite economic hardships, her father arranged for Kitty to attend Newcomb School of Fine Arts at Tulane University during the Depression era. She returned to Tulane for postgraduate study, during the latter half of the 1950s.

    She became established as a well-respected regional artist in New Orleans and the southeastern United States. Media include oil, acrylic, pastel, charcoal, pencil, silk screen, and mixed media.

    Aside from individual and group exhibits in New Orleans, she also had one-woman shows in the Masur Museum of Art in M...

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