Kate Newhall

Kate W. Newhall (1840-1917) was an American artist known for her oil landscape paintings, specializing in mountains, rivers, and coastal scenes. Her landscapes utilized muted pastels, light brush strokes, and often depicted sunsets over waterscapes.

Early life and education Born in Fall River, Massachusetts, Newhall spent her youth in Concord, New Hampshire, where she discovered her love of and talent for painting. In addition to studying at Cooper Union, Newhall took classes with three separate landscape and marine painters: Rufus Wright, Carleton Wiggins, and Mauritz F.H. de Haas. She remained close friends with her sketching partner William Keith and Leola Coggins.

Career Around 1870, Newhall had built a reputation with her skills as a landscape artist, whose works were drawn from the New England countryside. In 1875, she relocated to Plainfield, New Jersey where she would remain until 1897, when she then relocated with her brother to Berkeley, California. She was able to support herself with her artworks and was eventually able to open her own studio in California. A River Landscape, 1886. Hunter in a Winter Landscape, n.d. Carmel Coast, 1905. Sunset Over San Francisco Bay, 1906.