Katherine Fryer

Katherine "Kate" Mary Fryer, RBSA (26 August 1910 – 11 January 2017) was an English artist known for her wood engravings. She was the winner of the Hoffman Wood (Leeds) Gold Medal in 1969.

Biography Fryer was born in Leeds, England, and attended Leeds College of Art from 1926 to 1931, where she was first drawn to wood engraving. She became a teacher at Bath Academy of Art and a member of the Bath Society of Artists during the late 1930s.

She died in January 2017 at the age of 106.

Legacy Fryer's work is in the collections of Leeds Museums and Galleries, Harrogate Museum and Art Gallery, the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists Gallery, the University of Birmingham, Birmingham City University and the Royal Academy of Art.