Kathleen Lucy Salmond (21 August 1895 – 5 May 1946) was a New Zealand artist, born in Dunedin.
Early life and education Salmond was born in Dunedin, the eldest daughter of architect Louis Salmond. She studied at the Dunedin Art School (now Otago Polytechnic). She travelled to the UK and spent a year at the Harvey-Proctor Art School in Cornwall (run by Ernest Procter and Harold Harvey), and the one year at the Slade School of Fine Art and St Martin's School of Art.
Career Salmond worked primarily with watercolour. She exhibited with: Auckland Society of Arts Canterbury Society of Arts New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts Otago Art Society The Group (1934) Her work The Sunlit Farm was included in the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition, Dunedin, 1925–6. She also exhibited works in London at the British Empire Art Exhibition and the Coronation Exhibition.
Works by Salmond are held in the collection of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery.
Salmond died in Dunedin on 5 May 1946, and she was buried at Andersons Bay Cemetery.
References
Further reading An artist file for Salmond is held at: E. H. McCormick Research Library, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki Hocken Collections Uare Taoka o Hākena Te Aka Matua Research Library, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa Also see: New Zealand Art: A Centennial Exhibition (1940)