Katherine H. MacDonald
(british ?) printmaker
This is probably one of the nicest but enigmatic pictures I have ever found on the Internet. A lady in the USA (thank you Maure !) had found it before me on the Internet. I've not been able to locate where it came frome sofar. And I tried hard.
I love Gingerjars and I love Nasturtiums. It also put me up with a very unknown woodblock printmaker. There is nothing at all to be found on (non paying) internet sites or what so ever. No details on her life, no other works but the following 3 pictures I came across in old auction cataloques. (The last 2 of rather poor quality)
"Cup of Gold", 10" x 8"
So: any information on Katharine H. would be very welcome.
It is a stunning piece but I wonder what makes you certain of the name? The monogram doesn't seem to be particularly Anglo-Saxon to me, but that is an opinion. It is very desirable, but more fascinating with a little history.
ReplyDeleteLike the yellow flowerprint it is monogrammed in the same way. The yellowflowers was identified by the pencil signing" Katherine H. MacDonald". All 4 monogrammes are more or less identical: K M.
ReplyDeleteWhish I had some more story. Maybe someday.
I see, well I do a little checking when I have time, I am also curious. She is a superb artist. I am leaning toward the Scottish school, and not just because of the name.
ReplyDeleteShe could be one of those Scots that left for Canada. I think the Clan MacDonald emigrated en masse.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, I wish you would stop putting up these prints you have bought. It's very frustrating.
You are Watson to Clive's Sherlock Holmes.
ReplyDeleteIt's just fun. And I don't own any of these presented MacDonald prints. Just in JPEG and in the head. Lots of WT though (Wishfull Thinking) To know of them is a reward also.
ReplyDeleteK.M. isn't listed as an American Artist is all I know. So maybe you're right about Canada. Clive located many a lost British artist back in Australia so I read.
lovely
ReplyDeleteThe San Diego Museum has a woodcut "Aralia", not illustrated unfortunately, by Katherine Heilner Macdonald
ReplyDeletehttp://198.172.203.111/Obj745$2689
From google books:
"Artists in California, 1786-1940: L-Z
Edan Milton Hughes, Crocker Art Museum - 2002
MacDONALD, Katherine Heilner (1882- 1967). Painter, printmaker, teacher. Born in Brooklyn, NY on Nov. 30, 1882, the daughter of Rear Admiral Lewis C. Heilner. Katherine studied under Arthur Dow at the Pratt Institute and at the Federal ..."
Well thank you so much ! I have been looking so hard and so long for more details. And to know she was a student of Arthur Dow himself. That's nice to know. A pity that she has disappeared in obscurity but thanks to you we are bringing her back into the light were she belongs. I'll making additions to the posting and I'll send a request to the San Diego Museum.
ReplyDeleteA simple search trick is just to reverse the first and second names inside quotation marks, perhaps adding a keyword. In this case
ReplyDelete"Macdonald Katherine" woodcut
It often brings up museum catalogue entries,which tend to be written in this format.