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Kay Kinsman{{Infobox artist| name = Kay Kinsman | birth_name = Katherine Nixon Bell | birth_date = June 27 1909 | birth_place = Los Angeles, CA | death_place = Sherbrooke, Qu }} Katherine Nixon Bell (1909 - 1998), known professionally and by her peers as Kay Kinsman, was an artist, writer, and student of history and languages in her lifetime. She is noted for her works created with watercolour or fine pen and ink depicting street views and everyday life. As an artist and writer, Kinsman published various works such as three sketchbooks Montreal Sketchbook (published for Canada’s centennial 1967), Broadway Sketchbook (1974), and Lennox Sketchbook (1990). Kinsman’s works were also displayed in various exhibitions in England and Quebec. Kinsman was born in Los Angeles, and her father died before her birth. After her mother’s death at age 9, Kinsman lived with her grandmother in Cuba, schooling in Jamaica. Throughout her life, Kinsman spent time abroad studying in Paris, living in Switzerland and England, and spent her final years living and studying in Quebec, Canada. At the age of 89, Kinsman passed away in her final home of Sherbrooke, Quebec. Kinsman spent the last two decades of her life focusing on her academic life studying art, history, languages, drama, and classics at Bishop’s University, Sherbrooke. Kinsman accepted numerous degrees including a masters degree from McGill University and multiple bachelor degrees from Bishop’s University where she spent a significant portion of her later-life as a campus icon and learned student.[1]. After her death, various drawings and materials used by Kinsman were donated to the Archives Department of the Eastern Townships Resource Centre, Sherbrooke[1] Early LifeKinsman was born in Los Angeles on June 27th 1909. Prior to birth, Kinsman’s father passed away of Typhus Disease.[1] After his death, Kinsman and her mother spent time living in Mexico, as her grandfather worked on a railway there.[1] After her grandfather’s imprisonment during the revolution, in 1911, Kinsman and her mother fled back to the United States.[1] Eby writes of a story of Kinsman at age 4, where she was expelled from a convent school in Texas after she drew a priest sitting on a bathroom toilet.[2] After Kinsman’s mother remarried, the family moved to Cuba while Kinsman spent her elementary years in school in Jamaica. While visiting her daughter in Jamaica, Kinsman’s mother died. Kinsman was 9 years old. Once graduated and living in Cuba, Kinsman started working as a junior reporter of the Havana times, although she soon left the position to study fine art abroad. References1. ^1 2 3 4 {{Cite journal|last=Eby|first=Jack|date=Fall 1998|title=Kay Kinsman and Bishop’s: the Kinsman Papers [contains excerpts]|url=|journal=Journal of Eastern Townships Studies|volume=13|pages=101-122|via=}} {{authority control|VIAF=91967180}}2. ^{{Cite news|url=|title=Facts & Arguments: Lives Lived: Katherine Bell Kinsman|last=Eby|first=Jack|date=November 4, 1998|work=The Globe and Mail|access-date=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=}} |
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