Katherine Lovell (1877-1965) American, Floral Still Life Watercolor. Shows a bright yellow spread of flowers in bright blue vases. Signed bottom left. 

Overall Size: 26 x 23 1/2 in. 

Sight Size: 22 x 19 1/2 in. 

#4308 

Katherine Adams Lovell was born in New York City in 1877. She worked in oils, watercolors, and acrylics to create brightly colored impressionistic coastal scenes, landscapes, interiors, and genre paintings. Her most common works usually included scenes of children playing in the sun, landscapes of  paths cut through a brush covered cliff, and small boats docked along the water’s edge, as well as the occasional floral or dinnerplate still life. Lovell’s early formal art training started at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, before she began to study privately with William Merritt Chase (1849-1916), Charles Webster Hawthorne (1872-1930), and John Fabian Carlson (1874-1945).  She was a prominent member of the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors (NAWPS), the National Association of Women Artists (NAWA), the Pen and Brush Club for Women Artists, the Brooklyn Society of Artists, and the Studio Guild, all based out of New York. In 1929 Lovell moved to Brooklyn as Manhattan began to grow more crowded, although she frequently exhibited throughout the Five Boroughs, including with the National Academy of Design, the Ogunquit Art Club, and the Society of Independent Artists. She died in 1965, having never traveled beyond her home city, but her work is still represented in multiple museums around the country, including the Wright Museum of Art in Beloit, Wisconsin and the Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences.