Kathryn E. Bard Cherry (1880-1931)

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Kathryn E. Bard Cherry was an esteemed member of several Midwest arts associations, yet like many painters in the early twentieth century she found much to inspire her while spending summers exploring the artists’ colonies of Cape Ann, Massachusetts. She studied at the St. Louis Art School, the New York School of Fine Art, and at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts with Hugh Breckenridge. Cherry exhibited her work locally as well as at the Art Institute of Chicago from 1921 to 1923, and at the Pennsylvania Academy from 1921 until 1930. She was awarded first prize at the St. Louis Artists’ Guild’s Seventh Annual Exhibition in early 1920.[1] In addition to various St. Louis organizations, Cherry was a member of the Gloucester Society of Artists, the North Shore Arts Association and the Rockport Art Association, and also exhibited with the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors.

 

References: Falk, Who Was Who in American Art, 1999; Koplos, Janet, and Bruce Metcalf. Makers: A History of American Studio Craft (The University of North Carolina Press, 2010); American Art News, February 14, 1920; “St. Louis Patrons Begin With Schools.” American Art News, December 31, 1921.
 

 

[1] American Art News, February 14, 1920.