This biography from the Archives of AskART:
| Born in Four Oaks, Kentucky, Katherine Kavanaugh Cahill became a
painter in impressionist and modernist styles and first gained
recognition for floral studies. She also painted western subjects
including the Pima Indians and St. John's Mission near Phoenix,
Arizona, and became quite prolific with Arizona landscapes. Her
mediums were oil, watercolor, charcoal, pen and pencil.
She was
raised in Falmouth, Kentucky, and as a young woman went to Globe,
Arizona where she joined her sisters and a brother-in-law.
Desiring to become an artist, she went to Los Angeles about 1917, and
studied at the School of Illustration and Painting, owned and operated
by John Hubbard Rich and William Cahill, her future husband. These
artists sold the school shortly after she arrived, but she remained a
student of Cahill's, whom she married in Los Angeles in November, 1919.
They
lived for the next two years in San Francisco, and each painted and did
commercial artwork and shared a studio on Polk Street. Then they
were apart for a period of time while he pursued a job opportunity in
Chicago and she awaited the birth of their first child in
Phoenix. Shortly after, she joined her husband in Chicago, but he
died in 1924. She returned to Phoenix where her young daughter
died the following year.
For the next twelve years she lived
between Phoenix and southern California, and in 1937, settled in
Pasadena. She was a member of the Phoenix Fine Arts Association,
the California Art Club, and Laguna Beach Art Association, and in 1922
was a member of the art jury at the Arizona State Fair.
Source:
Phil Kovinick and Marian Kovinick, Women Artists of the American West
Edan Hughes, Artists in California 1786-1940
Peter Hastings Falk, Editor, Who Was Who in American Art
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Katherine Cahill is also mentioned in these AskART essays:
The California Art Club
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