Biography from Charleston Renaissance Gallery:
| Kate Freeman Clark, born in Holly Springs, Mississippi, was a
contemporary of Anne Golthwaite. She managed to study very
successfully in New York with Robert Henri and William Merritt Chase,
and was on her way to achieving a notable career. But on the
advice of her mother, who had gone to New York with her, she concealed
her sex by signing her paintings "Freeman Clark." She never sold
a work, even though she was given several "one-man" shows.
After
the death of her mother in 1923, she returned to Holly Springs and all
but abandoned painting. At her own death in 1957 at age
eight-three, she bequeathed her art, which had been stored since 1923
in a warehouse in New York, to her unsuspecting community, along with
enough funds to establish an art center named after her. One
particularly fine landscape, Summer Afternoon, now at the
Brooks Memorial Art Gallery in Memphis, calls to mind a comparison with
the best of Chase's Shinnecock scenes; it is altogether unfortunate
that she cut short her career.
Source:
From Painting in the South: 1564-1980, Virginia Museum, Richmond, p. 110.
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