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aesthetics. Her paintings, with their "bold outlines and vivid colors," lent themselves to the book illustration format, and she contracted with London publishers T. C. and E. C. Jack in 1904 to provide art for books of fairytales. Her interest in embroidered materials, fabrics, and costume comes
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Cameron also produced landscapes and regularly exhibited these alongside her flower studies and still life pictures. Cameron and her husband Arthur Kay, made regular trips to the
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Iain the Happy Puppy: Being the Autobiography of a West Highland Terrier
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M, L (July 1919). "Katherine Cameron's Etchings of Flowers".
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852:The Visions of the Hills
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589:James Richmond Aitken –
553:Rhyme of the Duchess May
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464:Society of Women Artists
285:Arts and Crafts movement
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178:Early life and education
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317:Phoebe Anna Traquair
1230:Library of Congress
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197:She studied at the
192:David Young Cameron
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536:The Enchanted Land
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305:The Enchanted Land
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