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SUMMARY:The Artist's Sketch book talk by Carolyn Brown
DESCRIPTION:
Join Carolyn Brown for a fascinating talk on he
r book
"The Artist's Ske
tch: A Biography of Painter Kate Freeman Clark."
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n is free, donations are appreciated
Artist Kate Freeman Cla
rk (1875-1957) left behind over one thousand paintings now stored at a gall
ery 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 citizen
s even discovered that she was a painter of considerable stature. In her wi
ll, Clark left the city her family home, her paintings stored at a warehous
e in New York for over forty years, and money to build a gallery, much to t
he surprise of the Holly Springs community.
As a young woman, Clark stud
ied art in New York and took classes with some of the greatest American art
ists of the day. From the start Clark approached the study of art with disc
ipline and tenacity. She learned from William Merritt Chase when he opened
his own school in 1895. For six consecutive summers at his Shinnecock Summe
r School of Art in Long Island, she mastered the plein air technique. Chase
trained many female students, yet he recognized Clark as "his most talente
d pupil." The book prints, for the first time, excerpts from Clark's deligh
tful journal of the artist's experience at Chase's school, giving readers f
irsthand reporting of an artist-led school in the early twentieth century.
Clark returned to Holly Springs in 1923. Mysteriously, sadly, she nev
er resumed painting and lived the last ten years of her life in quietude. T
he Artist's Sketch shines a light on Clark, finally bringing her out of obs
curity. This book also introduces Clark's art to a new generation of reader
s and highlights current projects and important work being done in Holly Sp
rings by the Kate Freeman Clark Art Gallery and the Marshall County Histori
cal Museum, the two institutions that, since her death, have worked hard to
keep Kate Freeman Clark's legacy alive.
Dr. Carolyn J. Brown is a writer, editor, and independent scholar.
She attended Duke University and then the University of North Carolina-Gree
nsboro for her Master’s and Ph.D. A Daring Life: A Biography of Eudor
a Welty was her first book. It was selected by the Mississippi Library Comm
ission to represent the state of Mississippi at the National Book Festival
in Washington DC in 2012, and won the Mississippi Library Association&rsquo
;s Award for Nonfiction in 2013. She published her second biography, Song o
f My Life: A Biography of Margaret Walker, in November 2014, which won a sp
ecial award from the Mississippi Library Association for Juvenile Literatur
e. Brown has published articles in many journals, including Notes on Missis
sippi Writers, College Language Journal, the Eudora Welty Review, Persuasio
ns: The Jane Austen Journal, and The Journal of Mississippi History. Her th
ird book will be published in February 2017 and is entitled The Artist&rsqu
o;s Sketch: A Biography of Painter Kate Freeman Clark.
for more infor
mation about Carolyn Brown and her other works click the following link:
http://www.carolynjbrow
n.net/index.htm
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