Mary Williams (pseudonym "Kate Carew") was born in 1869 in Oakland, CA. Daughter of Robert Neil Williams, a mining engineer, she spent part of her childhood in a mining camp of the California Sierras. Later, Mary attended San Francisco School of Design, and then later studied at the Chase School in New York City and the Academie Colorossi in Paris. In 1889 she worked as one of seventeen staff illustrators for the "San Francisco Examiner".
Discovered by Ambrose Bierce, "Kate Carew" became a legendary caricaturist for the "San Francisco Examiner" and other publications including the "New York World", from whose staff she had commissions to go to London and caricature famous people.
Some of her work then appeared in "The Tattler" in London, and she married during the period in England. She was also a successful painter of impressionist landscapes, portraits, figure studies and did monotypes.
She frequently returned to California and painted with her close friend Mary De Neale Morgan in Carmel and in 1914, studied there with William Merritt Chase. She lived in Carmel during World War I, returned to England, and in 1943, became a resident of the Monterey Peninsula.
She was married thrice, to Seymour Davison (1891), Harry Kellett Chambers (1901), and John A. Reed (1916).
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Discovered by Ambrose Bierce, "Kate Carew" became a legendary caricaturist for the "San Francisco Examiner" and other publications including the "New York World", from whose staff she had commissions to go to London and caricature famous people.
Some of her work then appeared in "The Tattler" in London, and she married during the period in England. She was also a successful painter of impressionist landscapes, portraits, figure studies and did monotypes.
She frequently returned to California and painted with her close friend Mary De Neale Morgan in Carmel and in 1914, studied there with William Merritt Chase. She lived in Carmel during World War I, returned to England, and in 1943, became a resident of the Monterey Peninsula.
She was married thrice, to Seymour Davison (1891), Harry Kellett Chambers (1901), and John A. Reed (1916).
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(This biography from the archives of AskART.com)
Mary Williams (pseudonym "Kate Carew") was born in 1869 in Oakland, CA. Daughter of Robert Neil Williams, a mining engineer, she spent part of her childhood in a mining camp of the California Sierras. Later, Mary attended San Francisco School of Design, and then later studied at the Chase School in New York City and the Academie Colorossi in Paris. In 1889 she worked as one of seventeen staff illustrators for the "San Francisco Examiner".
Discovered by Ambrose Bierce, "Kate Carew" became a legendary caricaturist for the "San Francisco Examiner" and other publications including the "New York World", from whose staff she had commissions to go to London and caricature famous people.
Some of her work then appeared in "The Tattler" in London, and she married during the period in England. She was also a successful painter of impressionist landscapes, portraits, figure studies and did monotypes.
She frequently returned to California and painted with her close friend Mary De Neale Morgan in Carmel and in 1914, studied there with William Merritt Chase. She lived in Carmel during World War I, returned to England, and in 1943, became a resident of the Monterey Peninsula.
She was married thrice, to Seymour Davison (1891), Harry Kellett Chambers (1901), and John A. Reed (1916).
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(This biography from the archives of AskART.com)
Discovered by Ambrose Bierce, "Kate Carew" became a legendary caricaturist for the "San Francisco Examiner" and other publications including the "New York World", from whose staff she had commissions to go to London and caricature famous people.
Some of her work then appeared in "The Tattler" in London, and she married during the period in England. She was also a successful painter of impressionist landscapes, portraits, figure studies and did monotypes.
She frequently returned to California and painted with her close friend Mary De Neale Morgan in Carmel and in 1914, studied there with William Merritt Chase. She lived in Carmel during World War I, returned to England, and in 1943, became a resident of the Monterey Peninsula.
She was married thrice, to Seymour Davison (1891), Harry Kellett Chambers (1901), and John A. Reed (1916).
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(This biography from the archives of AskART.com)
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