Artist
Kate Clifton Osgood Holmes
born Ellsworth, ME 1858-died Washington, DC 1925
- Also known as
- Kate Clifton Holmes
- Kate Clifton Osgood
- Kate Osgood Holmes
- Born
- Ellsworth, Maine, United States
- Died
- Washington, District of Columbia, United States
- Biography
Born October 1, 1858, in Ellsworth, Maine. Moved with her family to Washington, D.C., about 1862; remained to 1925. Studied painting with William Merritt Chase at thte Art Students League, New York. Married William Henry Holmes, 1883. Studied art in Europe for a year. Taught decorative arts in local schools and at the Madeira School, McLean, Va. Died April 19, 1925, in Washington, D.C.
Andrew J. Cosentino and Henry H. Glassie The Capital Image: Painters in Washington, 1800–1915 (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press for the National Museum of American Art, 1983)