Katharine Kimball


Katharine Kimball A.B.E. ) was an American artist, illustrator, and etcher, who spent most of her 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, and The Story of Canterbury, by G.R. Stirling Taylor.

Life and works

Kimball was born in Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire and spent some time in Boston, Massachusetts before studying at the National Academy of Design in New York and then at the Royal College of Art in London. Her first solo exhibition was in London at the Clifford Gallery in 1902. In 1909 she was elected an associate member of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers. She lived in Bath for over twenty years, and near the end of her life made substantial gifts to the Victoria Art Gallery of works on paper from her own collection. She died at St. James's Square Nursing Home in Bath in 1949 after a short illness.
Kimball's works are in the collections of a number of public art institutions, including the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Portland Art Museum, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the British Museum. She was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and donated a number of objects to their museum.

Career