Lot 71
KATHLEEN MOIR MORRIS A.R.C.A.
Provenance:
Private Collection, Calgary
Literature:
Frances K. Smith, Kathleen Moir Morris,Kingston, 1983, pages 12-13 and fig.2 for a photograph of the artist painting at Marshall’s Bay in 1952.
Exhibited:
Kathleen Moir Morris, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen’s University, Kingston, 1 September - 9 October, 1983, cat.no.28.
Note:
Morris spent summers at a family home at Marshall’s Bay near Arnprior. A nephew, who also spent summers with her and watched her painting, wrote the following description:”Dressed in a grotesque looking old smock and straw hat, Kay sat on a small folding chair with the paint box on her knees... Her movements were quite unsteady because of a nervous disorder she suffered from birth. Kay’s brush would jab jerkily at the paints on her palette, and her arm would waver as she brought the brush up to the picture, but the second it touched the panel Kay’s arm would become steady as a rock. And Kay was the picture of concentration when she was painting.” (Angus Morris to Frances K. Smith, December 21, 1982).