1930s Katherine Merrill Etching, “The Warders, Chartres”

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Early 1900s Katherine Merrill (New York, Wisconsin 1876 - 1962) etching, The Warders. Chartres.

Her work is included in the … more Early 1900s Katherine Merrill (New York, Wisconsin 1876 - 1962) etching, The Warders. Chartres.

Her work is included in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and the Art Institute of Chicago. And, eight of her works are in National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Known as a painter in the Impressionist style, as well as an etcher, Katherine Merrill was born 1876 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She studied at the Art Institute of Chicago; New York Art Student League; as well as with Frederick Richardson, John Vanderpoel, William H. Low, Frank Duveneck, Albert Herter, William Merritt Chase, and in London with Frank Brangwyn.

She was a teacher at the Art Student League in New York, and in Charleston at the South Carolina Museum of Art. She also became a prominent impressionist landscape artist in Sarasota, Florida during the 1930s, although she lived primarily in New York City.

Merrill was President of the Sarasota Artist's Association. She was member of the Society of American Etchers, Chicago Society of Etchers, Brooklyn Society of Etchers, California Society of Etchers, and the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors.

This piece, "The Warders, Chartres", can be found in the archives at the The Art Institute of Chicago.

In 1929, Miss Katherine Merrill, c/o Kennedy & Co., 785, Fifth Avenue, New York, had two etchings listed in the 1929: FINE PRINTS OF THE YEAR, AN ANNUAL REVIEW OF CONTEMPORARY ETCHING and ENGRAVING. The etchings were: “A Street in Charleston”, and “Porgy's Wharf”…

The Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston has an etching by Merrill, but it’s a Brooklyn scene. Two of her etchings from circa 1926 are in the South Carolina State Museum. She is listed in The Johnson Collection in Spartanburg, The Dictionary of Southern Women Artists and The Charleston Renaissance Gallery Records, “The Southern Historical Collection”.

Signed etching. Pencil signed "Katherine Merrill" lower right. Artist's initials also in plate, lower right.

Etching in black on ivory laid paper

Mat: 13.75”w x 18.75” H

Image/plate: 25.3 × 17.8 cm (10 × 7 1/16 in.) less