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Kathleen Lucy Salmond (1895–1946) was a New Zealand artist, born in Dunedin.[1]

Kathleen Salmond
Born	Kathleen Lucy Salmond 1895 Dunedin, New Zealand
Died	1946
Education	Dunedin Art School, Slade School of Fine Art, St Martin's School of Art
Known for	Painting – Watercolour
Notable work	The Sunlit Farm

Education

Salmond 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.[2]

Career

Salmond worked primarily with watercolour. She exhibited with:

• Auckland Society of Arts[3]
• Canterbury Society of Arts[4]
• New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts[5]
• Otago Art Society[6]
• The Group (1934)[7]

Her work The Sunlit Farm was included in the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition, Dunedin, 1925–6.[8][9] She also exhibited works in London at the British Empire Art Exhibition and the Coronation Exhibition.[2]

Works by Salmond are held in the collection of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery.[10]

References

Further reading

An artist file for Salmond is held at:

• E. H. McCormick Research Library, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
• Hocken Collections Uare Taoka o Hākena
• Te Aka Matua Research Library, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Also see:

• New Zealand Art: A Centennial Exhibition (1940)

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