biography of Kathryn Dayton AURNER (1898-1991)

Birth place: Iowa City, IA

Death place: Madison, WI?

Addresses: Madison, WI; Carmel, CA

Profession: Painter, graphic artist, etcher, writer, illustrator

Studied: Univ. of Iowa, B.A.; Gloucester, MA; CI; Univ. of Wisconsin, and with Charles A. Cumming, Norwood McGilvary, Barse Miller; Hugh Breckenridge; and Frederick Taubes.

Exhibited: Milwaukee City Club; Milwaukee Journal Gallery; Milwaukee Painters & Sculptors; Oshkosh Mus. of Art; Mt. Mary College, WI; Iowa Art Salon; Iowa State Fair, 1920 (gold med.), 1921 (bronze med.); Madison AA, 1940 (prize); Lg. Am. Pen Women, 1944 (prize); Madison Art Guild, 1943 (prize); Wisconsin Salon; Wisconsin P. & S.; Washington, DC; Watsonville, CA; Santa Cruz, CA; Carmel, CA; Madison, WI, 1948 (solo); Oklahoma City, 1953; Salem, OR, 1954; Crocker Art Gal., Sacramento, CA, 1955.

Member: Wisconsin Art Fed.; Wisconsin P. & S.; Madison AA; Madison Art Guild (pres.); Carmel AA (board of directors, 1953-54; secretary, 1956-57)

Comments: Positions: special teacher of art, Madison Public Schools; supervisor, Public School Art, Madison, WI to 1940; dir., Soldier A. Program, Truax Field, Madison, WI, 1943-1946. Illus.: Land of the Kiowas," by Edwin Ford Piper; "Iowa Stories, Book Three, " by C. R. Aurner. Contributor to art magazines and newspapers.

Sources: WW59; WW47; Ness & Orwig, Iowa Artists of the First Hundred Years, 19."