Kathleen Salmond

{{Infobox artist

| name = Kathleen Salmond

| image =

| caption =

| birth_name = Kathleen Lucy Salmond

| birth_date = {{Birth date |1895|08|21|df=y}}

| birth_place = Dunedin, New Zealand

| death_date = {{Death date and age |1946|05|05|1895|08|21|df=y}}

| death_place = Dunedin, New Zealand

| movement =

| relatives = Louis Salmond (father)
John Salmond (uncle)
William Salmond (grandfather)
Jeremy Salmond (nephew)
Robin Allan (cousin)

| awards =

| patrons =

| 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.{{Cite web|url=http://findnzartists.org.nz/artist/13226/|title=Salmond, Kathleen Lucy|website=findnzartists.org.nz|language=en|access-date=27 September 2017}}

Early life and education

Salmond was born in Dunedin, the eldest daughter of architect Louis Salmond.{{cite news |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ODT19460506.2.2.4 |title=Deaths |date=6 May 1946 |work=Otago Daily Times |issue=26144 |page=1 |access-date=7 January 2023}} 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.{{Cite web|url=http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-GovArt-t1-body-d2-d167.html|title=Kathleen Salmond {{!}} NZETC|website=nzetc.victoria.ac.nz|access-date=27 September 2017}}

Career

Salmond worked primarily with watercolour. She exhibited with:

Auckland Society of Arts{{Cite web|url=http://findnzartists.org.nz/artists/exhibition/1/|title=Artists exhibited with Auckland Society of Arts|website=findnzartists.org.nz|language=en|access-date=27 September 2017}}
Canterbury Society of Arts{{Cite web|url=http://findnzartists.org.nz/artists/exhibition/2/|title=Artists exhibited with Canterbury Society of Arts|website=findnzartists.org.nz|language=en|access-date=27 September 2017}}
New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts{{Cite web|url=http://findnzartists.org.nz/artists/exhibition/4/|title=Artists exhibited with New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts|website=findnzartists.org.nz|language=en|access-date=27 September 2017}}
Otago Art Society{{Cite web|url=http://findnzartists.org.nz/artists/exhibition/7/|title=Artists exhibited with Otago Art Society|website=findnzartists.org.nz|language=en|access-date=27 September 2017}}
The Group (1934){{Cite web|url=https://christchurchartgallery.org.nz/about/library/the-group/-1934|title=The Group 1934|website=christchurchartgallery.org.nz|access-date=27 September 2017}}

Her work The Sunlit Farm was included in the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition, Dunedin, 1925–6.{{Cite web|url=http://findnzartists.org.nz/artists/exhibition/16/|title=Artists exhibited with New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition, Dunedin, 1925-6|website=findnzartists.org.nz|language=en|access-date=27 September 2017}}{{Cite web|url=https://christchurchartgallery.org.nz/about/library/archives/catalogue-of-the-international-exhibition-of-the-f|title=Catalogue of the International Exhibition of the Fine Arts|website=christchurchartgallery.org.nz|access-date=27 September 2017}} 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.{{Cite web|url=http://collection.dunedin.art.museum/search.do?view=label&collection=0&field-0=USER_SYM_38&bool-0=AND&value-0=Salmond,%20Kathleen%20Lucy&sort=ACCESSION_NO|title=Kathleen Salmond – Dunedin Public Art Gallery|website=collection.dunedin.art.museum|language=en|access-date=27 September 2017}}

Salmond died in Dunedin on 5 May 1946, and she was buried at Andersons Bay Cemetery.

Kathleen Salmond

Early life and education

Career

References

Further reading