Kathleen Salmond

Salmond was born in Dunedin, the eldest daughter of architect Louis Salmond.[2] 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.[3]

Salmond worked primarily with watercolour. She exhibited with:

• Auckland Society of Arts[4]
• Canterbury Society of Arts[5]
• New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts[6]
• Otago Art Society[7]
• The Group (1934)[8]

Her work The Sunlit Farm was included in the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition, Dunedin, 1925–6.[9][10] She also exhibited works in London at the British Empire Art Exhibition and the Coronation Exhibition.[3]

Works by Salmond are held in the collection of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery.[11]

Salmond died in Dunedin on 5 May 1946, and she was buried at Andersons Bay Cemetery.[2]

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)