Williams, Caroline
Item
-
Title
-
Williams, Caroline
-
Gender
-
Female
-
Biography
-
Caroline Williams was the daughter of Cincinnati Enquirer artist Carll B. Williams and Mary Teal Williams. She was an artist best known for her pen and ink sketches. Her family lived in Northern Kentucky until 1913 when they moved to Cincinnati, Ohio. She attended Hughes High School and furthered her education at the University of Cincinnati (one year), the Art Academy of Cincinnati and the Art Students League in New York City.
-
Around 1932 she began working at the Cincinnati Enquirer newspaper where she began a weekly feature of her pen and ink drawings "A Spot in Cincinnati". As the feature grew in popularity she began to draw sketches that included spots in Northern Kentucky and Indiana. Williams mixed the past and present in her work and had a passion for old buildings and architecture.
-
Not only did she contribute to the Cincinnati Enquirer, but she did a multitude of freelance work. Her sketches appeared on Christmas cards, napkins, plates, etc. Between years 1938 and 1971 she published five books of her artwork.
-
In March of 1942 she held an exhibit at Closson's Gallery featuring sketches she had drawn on her trip to Quebec, Canada with her friend Dorothy Caldwell.
-
In 1980 she stopped contributing her sketches to the Cincinnati Enquirer at the age of 71 and at the end of her life she worked mainly in watercolor.
-
Williams died in March of 1988 in her log cabin and is buried in Forest Hill Cemetery in Shelbyville, Indiana.
-
Birth date
-
10 Nov 1908
-
Father
-
Williams, Carll Badger
-
Mother
-
Teal, Mary
-
Death date
-
9 Mar 1988
-
Occupation(s)
-
Artist
-
Bibliographic citation(s)
-
Cincinnati Enquirer, Friday March 11, 1988, page 18, column 1
Boone County (Ky.)
Williams, Caroline