The Stone City Art Colony and School 1932-1933
Emma Kitt

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Emma Kitt (1895-1953) -- student

Born in Melbourne, South Dakota in 1885, Emma Kitt pursued her art training at the Art Institute of Chicago, the New York School of Fine and Applied Art, and at the Stone City art colony. Kitt exhibited extensively across the Midwest, including notable showings at the Josyln Memorial Art Museum (Omaha, NE; 1934-1944), the Iowa Art Salon at the state fair (1933-1938), the Kansas City Art Institute (1935), and at Iowa Water Color Association gatherings in Sioux City, Iowa (1945). A gifted watercolorist, Kitt was appointed as an associate art professor at Iowa State University in Ames. She remained in the community, teaching and exhibiting, until she died in 1953.

 



When Tillage Begins: The Stone City Art Colony and School
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