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Katherine Cameron BIOGRAPHY
1874 Hillhead, Glasgow, Scotland - 1965. Known for: Fairy tale illustration, floral painting.
Cameron trained at the Glasgow School of Art from 1890 to 1893, and then at the Atelier Colarossi in Paris. She was part of the progressive group of young women artists discussed in Jude Burkhauser's... Read full biography
Cameron trained at the Glasgow School of Art from 1890 to 1893, and then at the Atelier Colarossi in Paris. She was part of the progressive group of young women artists discussed in Jude Burkhauser's Glasgow Girls. Women in Art and Design 1880-1920. A photograph survives showing Cameron in the... Read full biography
Cameron trained at the Glasgow School of Art from 1890 to 1893, and then at the Atelier Colarossi in Paris. She was part of the progressive group of young women artists discussed in Jude Burkhauser's Glasgow Girls. Women in Art and Design 1880-1920. A photograph survives showing Cameron in the studio with these women, who proclaimed themselves The Immortals. Signaling their ambition to become immortal, in the same way as male artists. Discrimination against women in the Scottish art world had... Read full biography
Cameron trained at the Glasgow School of Art from 1890 to 1893, and then at the Atelier Colarossi in Paris. She was part of the progressive group of young women artists discussed in Jude Burkhauser's Glasgow Girls. Women in Art and Design 1880-1920. A photograph survives showing Cameron in the studio with these women, who proclaimed themselves The Immortals. Signaling their ambition to become immortal, in the same way as male artists. Discrimination against women in the Scottish art world had spurred the formation of the Glasgow Society of Lady Artists in the 1880s, and Cameron became an active member. Cameron showed her watercolor and gouache paintings and etchings in Britain and America. Her main venue remained the Royal Scottish... Read full biography
Cameron trained at the Glasgow School of Art from 1890 to 1893, and then at the Atelier Colarossi in Paris. She was part of the progressive group of young women artists discussed in Jude Burkhauser's Glasgow Girls. Women in Art and Design 1880-1920. A photograph survives showing Cameron in the studio with these women, who proclaimed themselves The Immortals. Signaling their ambition to become immortal, in the same way as male artists. Discrimination against women in the Scottish art world had spurred the formation of the Glasgow Society of Lady Artists in the 1880s, and Cameron became an active member. Cameron showed her watercolor and gouache paintings and etchings in Britain and America. Her main venue remained the Royal Scottish Academy, where she exhibited from 1894 to 1965. She also worked as an illustrator of... Read full biography
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Cameron trained at the Glasgow School of Art from 1890 to 1893, and then at the Atelier Colarossi in Paris. She was part of the progressive group of young women artists discussed in Jude Burkhauser's Glasgow Girls. Women in Art and Design 1880-1920. A photograph survives showing Cameron in the studio with these women, who proclaimed themselves The Immortals. Signaling their ambition to become immortal, in the same way as male artists.
Discrimination against women in the Scottish art world had spurred the formation of the Glasgow Society of Lady Artists in the 1880s, and Cameron became an active member. Cameron showed her watercolor and gouache paintings and etchings in Britain and America. Her main venue remained the Royal Scottish Academy, where she exhibited from 1894 to 1965.
She also worked as an illustrator of romantic and fairy stories, often for the Edinburgh publisher T C.and EC. Jack, including titles such as in Fairyland 1904 and Stories of King Arthur's Knights 1905. Early in her career Cameron had contributed to The Yellow Book. Volume X 1896 featured her Babies and Brambles, in which flowers twine around fairy children.
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artfortune.com/katherine-cameron/artist-26951/Biography from the Archives of askART
Katherine (Kate) Cameron, a book and fairy tale illustrator, was born in Hillhead, Glasgow, in 1874. She was the sister of Sir D.Y. Cameron and one of seven children of a country minister and his artistic wife.
Kate Cameron studied at Glasgow School of Art from 1890-93 under Francis Henry Newbery and later at Académie Colarossi in Paris with Gustave Courtois.
Cameron was a talented illustrator and between 1904 and 1910, she illustrated a number of children's fairy tales and legends. Flowers were her life's passion, and her earlier flower pieces from the 1890s and early 1900s are normally rich in colour. She had a delicate style, and a careful drawing technique.
In 1928 she married Arthur Kay, an art collector
Cameron was a prominent member of the Glasgow Society of Lady Artists, she exhibited widely both at home and internationally.
Public collections include the V&A, British Museum, Glasgow Art Gallery, City Art Gallery, Edinburgh and a collection of 30 etchings is held by the Library of Congress, Washington DC.
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"Kate Cameron," The Scottish Gallery, Web, Mar. 2017