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CATEGORIES:Burgwin-Wright House and Gardens
SUMMARY:The Artist's Sketch book talk by Carolyn Brown
LOCATION:Burgwin-Wright House\, 224 Market Street\, Wilmington, NC 28401
DESCRIPTION:
Join Carolyn Brown for a fascinating talk o
n her book "The Artist's Sketch: A Biography of Painter Kate Freeman Clark."
Admission is free, donations are appreciated
About the book
<
/strong> Artist Kate Freeman Clark
(1875-1957) left behind over one thousand paintings now stored at a gallery
bearing her name in her hometown of Holly Springs, Mississippi. But it was
not until after her death in 1957 at the age of eighty-one that citizens e
ven discovered that she was a painter of considerable stature. In her will,
Clark left the city her family home, her paintings stored at a warehouse i
n New York for over forty years, and money to build a gallery, much to the
surprise of the Holly Springs community.
As a young woman, Clark studied
art in New York and took classes with some of the greatest American artist
s of the day. From the start Clark approached the study of art with discipl
ine and tenacity. She learned from William Merritt Chase when he opened his
own school in 1895. For six consecutive summers at his Shinnecock Summer S
chool of Art in Long Island, she mastered the plein air technique. Chase tr
ained many female students, yet he recognized Clark as "his most talented p
upil." The book prints, for the first time, excerpts from Clark's delightfu
l journal of the artist's experience at Chase's school, giving readers firs
thand reporting of an artist-led school in the early twentieth century.
Clark returned to Holly Springs in 1923. Mysteriously, sadly, she never
resumed painting and lived the last ten years of her life in quietude. The
Artist's Sketch shines a light on Clark, finally bringing her out of obscur
ity. This book also introduces Clark's art to a new generation of readers a
nd highlights current projects and important work being done in Holly Sprin
gs by the Kate Freeman Clark Art Gallery and the Marshall County Historical
Museum, the two institutions that, since her death, have worked hard to ke
ep Kate Freeman Clark's legacy alive.
Dr. Carolyn J. Bro
wn is a writer, editor, and independent scholar. She attended Duke Universi
ty and then the University of North Carolina-Greensboro for her Master&rsqu
o;s and Ph.D. A Daring Life: A Biography of Eudora Welty was her first book
. It was selected by the Mississippi Library Commission to represent the st
ate of Mississippi at the National Book Festival in Washington DC in 2012,
and won the Mississippi Library Association’s Award for Nonfiction in
2013. She published her second biography, Song of My Life: A Biography of
Margaret Walker, in November 2014, which won a special award from the Missi
ssippi Library Association for Juvenile Literature. Brown has published art
icles in many journals, including Notes on Mississippi Writers, College Lan
guage Journal, the Eudora Welty Review, Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journa
l, and The Journal of Mississippi History. Her third book will be published
in February 2017 and is entitled The Artist’s Sketch: A Biography of
Painter Kate Freeman Clark.
for more information about Carolyn Brown
and her other works click the following link:
http://www.carolynjbrown.net/index.htm
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