Caroline Kininmonth
Lady Caroline Kininmonth (1907-1978) was a British artist, known for her paintings of flowers and landscapes in both oil and watercolours.
Biography[]
Kininmonth spent most of her life in Edinburgh and studied at the Edinburgh College of Art from 1926 to 1930.[1] Working in oils, she painted still-life and botanic subjects plus rural scenes and landscapes.[2] During the 1940s and 1950s she was a regular exhibitor at the Royal Scottish Academy, showing some twenty-five works there.[3] Kininmonth also exhibited with the Scottish Society of Women Artists and the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts.[3][2] She was married to the architect Sir William Kininmonth and both Edinburgh University and the Arts Council of Scotland hold examples of her paintings.[1]
References[]
- ^ a b David Buckman (2006). Artists in Britain Since 1945 Vol 1, A to L. Art Dictionaries Ltd. ISBN 0 953260 95 X.
- ^ a b Paul Harris & Julian Halsby (1990). The Dictionary of Scottish Painters 1600 to the Present. Canongate. ISBN 1 84195 150 1.
- ^ a b Peter J.M. McEwan (1994). The Dictionary of Scottish Art and Architecture. Antique Collectors' Club. ISBN 1 85149 134 1.
External links[]
- 2 artworks by or after Caroline Kininmonth at the Art UK site
- 1907 births
- 1978 deaths
- 20th-century British women artists
- 20th-century Scottish painters
- Artists from Edinburgh
- Alumni of the Edinburgh College of Art
- Scottish women painters
- 20th-century Scottish women