Miss Katherine Elizabeth Wallis
Born 1861
Died 14 December 1957
Active: 1897 - 1914
Country of birth: Canada
Country of death: United States
Sculptor
Born in Peterborough, Ontario. She studied art first in Edinburgh and then at the Royal College of Art, London. It was here that she began sculpting and won the College's bronze medal and the Modellers' Free Scholarship. After two years at the Royal College, she went to Paris to study under the noted Swiss born sculptor of animals, Oscar Waldmann (1856-1937). Wallis exhibited in Paris (the Exposition Universelle, the Spring Salon of the Artists Français and the Societé Nationale des Beaux Arts), as well as regularly showing work in Britain. She served as a nurse in the Canadian Hospital in Paris during the First World War and was decorated by the French and British governments. At the end of the war, Wallis spent several years living and exhibiting in Canada. Later she returned to Paris, where she became the first Canadian to be elected Societaire of the Societé Nationale des Beaux Arts for her sculpture 'La Lutte pour la Vie' (1929). She left France at the beginning of the Second World War and took up residence in Santa Cruz, California, where she lived until her death.
Works
Dates are usually the year a work was exhibited so may differ from date of production.
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Locations
Address 6 Oakley Street Chelsea London SW England | View on map
1897 (Circa) - 1906 (Circa)
Probably not resident at this address for this entire period as also working on Paris
Address 80 Avenue du Maine Paris France | View on map
1909 (Circa)
Gave 54 Avenue du Maine as her address in 1914 (Royal Academy Exhibitors 1905-70, p. 208)
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at Leeds City Art Gallery, The Spring Exhibition, 1904
'Dog'
Exhibited at Leeds City Art Gallery, The Spring Exhibition, 1909
'Mon Petit Chou'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1897 - 1914
Exhibited 8 times, usually one work per year (medallions, statuettes and animal sculptures).
Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of pictures & sculpture: the thirty-second (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1902
1902
Mignonne (cat. no. 1392, marble bust, £35).
Sources
Autumn exhibition of pictures & sculpture: the thirty-second, 1902 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1902
pp. 42-47.
Catalogue of the Spring Exhibition, The City Art Gallery, Leeds 1904
1904
Cat. No. 682, pp. 66, 108
Catalogue of the Spring Exhibition, The City Art Gallery, Leeds 1909
1909
Cat. No. 251, pp. 26, 89
Katherine E. Wallis 1861-1956 papers
http://www.trentu.ca/admin/library/archives/69-002.htm
(catalogue entry accessed 22 March 2010)
Citing this record
'Miss Katherine Elizabeth Wallis', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib5_1210623134, accessed 28 Sep 2023]
