Kate Carew
Mary Williams (June 27, 1869 – February 11, 1961), who wrote
Education
Convent of Notre Dame, San Jose, Cal.; Mark Hopkins Institute of Art, University of California.; awarded gold medal for painting, 1891; Studied at the Atelier Colarossi, Paris, and the N.Y. School of Art.[1]
Biography
Mary Williams (pseudonym "Kate Carew") was born in Oakland, California, and began her art training at San Francisco’s School of Design under the esteemed Arthur Mathews and received the school’s “Special Medal for Excellence in Painting” at the local Art Association’s 1891 Winter Annual.[1] Her brother was Gluyas Williams.[2]
From 1891 to 1895 her art received awards at the California State Fair. She exhibited at the
In 1911 she was sent to Europe by the Sunday World to publish the series Kate Carew Abroad. She traveled to London and Paris, where she interviewed Pablo Picasso and Rostand, John Galsworthy, George Moore, Émile Zola, Bret Harte (who happened to be in England), Lady Sackville-West, and many others. She wrote about 500 pieces for New York City newspapers and later for the Tatler (London), The Patrician, and Eve.[3]
She was among those who visited
She became severely ill in December 1913 and returned to the States after surgery. While conducting interviews in Hollywood for the London Strand she met and married the British-born John A. Reed in December 1916.[7] The following spring they moved to Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. She became an exhibiting member of the Carmel Arts & Crafts Club and staged a solo exhibit at Monterey’s Hotel Del Monte with over two dozen caricatures, including Woodrow Wilson, Mark Twain, and Ethel Barrymore, to rave reviews.[8][9] Beginning in the early 1920s, when a severe wrist injury temporarily limited her career, the Reeds resided primarily at Guernsey in the Channel Islands or in France. She exhibited at the Salon des Artistes of Paris in 1924 and 1928; on the latter date she displayed Farm at Hyeres.[10] In June 1938 they returned to the Monterey Peninsula. John Reed died in June 1941 at a sanatorium in St. Helena. Mary Williams returned to Monterey in the spring of 1943, purchased the former home of the painter Lucy Valentine Pierce, and devoted herself to seascapes and landscapes.[11] She died at the age of 91 in a Pacific Grove rest home and is buried in Oakland.[3]
References
Notes
- ^ San Francisco Call, 13 December 1891, p. 2.
- ^ Society Is Nix: Gleeful Anarchy at the Dawn of the American Comic Strip 1895-1915, book review by Paul Tumey, in The Comics Journal; published August 30, 2013; retrieved November 30, 2019
- ^ ISBN 9781467545679. An online facsimile of the entire text of Vol. 1 is posted on the Traditional Fine Arts Organization website ("Jennie V. Cannon: The Untold History of the Carmel and Berkeley Art Colonies, vol. One, East Bay Heritage Project, Oakland, 2012; by Robert W. Edwards". Archived from the originalon 2016-04-29. Retrieved 2016-06-07.).
- ^ a b Williams, Mary (May 5, 1912). "Abdul Baha Talks to Kate Carew of Things Spiritual and Mundane" (PDF). New York Tribune. Retrieved 2010-08-31.
- ^ Lacroix-Hopson, Eliane; `Abdu'l-Bahá (1987). 'Abdu'l-Bahá in New York- The City of the Covenant. NewVistaDesign.
- ^ "Free Money on Bowery; Abdul Baha Visits Mission and Distributes Quarters". New York Tribune. April 20, 1912. p. 16. Retrieved 2010-03-29.
- ^ The Los Angeles Times, 08 Dec 1916, p.10.
- ^ San Francisco Chronicle, 1 February 1920, p. E-3.
- ^ Carmel Pine Cone, 5 February 1920, p. 1.
- ^ The Syracuse Herald, 13 May 1928, p. 1-4.
- ^ Monterey Peninsula Herald, 13 July 1943, p. 6.
Sources
- ISBN 0-87754-056-X; (trade paperback) ISBN o-97754-205-8
- Carew entry, Lambiek's Comiclopedia