Katherine M. Ball
Katherine Madeline Ball was an American educator, particularly known for her work on Asian art.
Biography
Ball was born in Reading, Pennsylvania to Henry and Carolyn Diehl Ball. She trained at the Cooper Union Art School in New York City. In the early 1880s she taught art at Winona Normal School. She moved to Omaha, Nebraska, in 1888, and worked with the Omaha Public Schools as writing and drawing teacher and art supervisor. She was involved in the formation of the Western Art Association and was its Secretary from 1888. She moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in the mid-1890s, and was a drawing teacher and art supervisor there until 1924. She was also known for her public lectures on Japanese prints: she gave lectures in San Francisco and a gave a series of lectures at the Imperial Hotel, Tokyo, in 1908. She visited Japan several times, her last visit being in 1936.She died in San Francisco, aged 93, and is remembered at the Chapel of the Chimes Columbarium and Mausoleum, Oakland.