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| Born in Winnipeg, Canada, Kathleeen Houlahan became a painter of western subjects including mountain landscapes, Indians whom she painted in the Southwest in the 1920s, and portraits including Ezra Meekers.
She lived as a child in Pasadena, California from the age of three. In 1901, she moved to Seattle and attended the University of Washington from 1902 to 1907. For her landscape paintings she often went by pack horse into the Cascade range and also visited other sites including the San Juan Islands, the Hood Canal, and the Neah Reservations.
Houlahan never married and was most active as an artist between 1914 and 1938. She exhibited widely including the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exhibition, the National Arts Club, the Salons of America, and the Society of Independent Artists.
In 1968, the Frye Museum in Seattle held a retrospective of her work.
Source: "An Encyclopedia of Women Artists of the American West" by Phil Kovinick and Marian Yoshiki-Kovinick |
This biography from the Archives of AskART:
| | Born in Winnepeg, Canada on Jan. 31, 1884. Houlahan moved to Pasadena in 1887 and lived there until 1901 when she enrolled at the University of Washington. She later studied in NYC with Henri, Hawthorne, and Miller. While based in Seattle she made trips to California to exhibit and sketch. She did little painting after 1938 due to ill health. A spinster, she died in Seattle on Feb. 1, 1964. Exh: Seattle FA Society, 1914; PPIE, 1915; SFAA, 1916; Western Painters, 1922; Seattle Museum, 1933-35; Frye Museum, 1968 (solo). In: Mount Rainier Nat'l Park; Museum of History & Industry (Seattle); Smithsonian Inst. | Source:
Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940"
Women Artists of the American West; Who's Who in American Art 1938-41; Seattle Times, 2-4-1964 (obituary). | | Nearly 20,000 biographies can be found in Artists in California 1786-1940 by Edan Hughes and is available for sale ($150). For a full book description and order information please click here. |
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San Francisco Panama-Pacific Exhibition 1915
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