Lot 356
Kate Freeman Clark ( American/Mississippi, 1875-1957, " Shinnecock Cove", watercolor and pencil on paper, signed and titled lower right, 11.5in. x 15..25in. E300/500 Note: Brought up in Vicksburg and Holly Springs, Mississippi, Kate Freeman Clark Attended finishing school in New York at the Gardner Institute. After graduating in 1894, she entered the Art Student's League where she studied with Irving Ramsay Wiles and John Twachtman, but was most profoundly influenced by William Merritt Ch ase, and became one of his favorite students as well as close friends. She also studied with Chase at Shinnecock Hills Summer School of Art 1896-1901 Clark began exhibiting her work under the name "Freeman Clark" to mask her gender, and exhibited over a 20 year period at institutions including Boston Art Club, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Corcoran Gallery, the Carnegie Institute, the New York School of Art, the National Academy of Design and the Society of American Artists. After her mother's death in 1922, Clark gave up painting, put her paintings in storage in a New York warehouse, and returned to her family home in Holly Springs, where she lived a sheltered, genteel life. Ref. Summers of `96 - Shinnecock Revisited: The Inspiration of Kate Freeman Clark by William Merritt Chase, Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, 1996
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