Kathryn O'Grady was born in 1956 in Birmingham Alabama. She received a BFA from Michigan State University, East Lansing, in 1978, and her MFA from the University of Texas at Austin in 1982. She moved to southern Maryland in 1997, where she paints and maintains a huge garden, a family, cats, chickens and ducks. Her work has been shown in solo shows over the past thirty years in Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, Bloomington, Illinois, Bethesda, and Baltimore. Her group exhibitions in Texas have included Zoomorphism at the Dallas Zoo (1988), Prize Catch at Women and Their Work in Austin (1990), Texas Landscapes at the Art Center in Waco (2000), Texas Landscapes at the Grace Museum in Abilene (2000), Earth, Wind, Water, Sky at the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts (2001) and Gallery in the Garden at the Governor's Mansion in Austin (2001, 2002). More recently in Maryland, she has been shown at the National Institute of Health in Bethesda, The Baltimore Choral Arts Society Benefits, The Ladew Garden Benefit Exhibition atLadew Topiary Gardens, Monkton, Maryland, (2008) the Intercontinental Harbor Court Hotel in Baltimore, (2008, 2009), Celebrating Fifty Years (2009) and Contemporary Landscapes: Work From The Permanent Collection (summer, 2010) at the Academy Art Museum in Easton, Maryland, and the biennial Image and Imagination shows at St. Johns College in Annapolis (2008, 2010), where she won Best Two Dimensional Work in 2008. Kathryn has been shown at Steven Scott Gallery since 2004, including In Full Bloom (2004), Artist /Gardener (2005), Seven Remarkable Regional Realist Women (2006), Into the Forest (2007), As Far as the Eye Can See (2009), and a solo show in 2008. Her work is in the Texas collections of American Airlines, Mobile Oil Corporation, USAA, MBank, the Dallas-Fort Worth Medical Center, Seton Hospital and Saint David's Hospital in Austin, the Shannon Medical Center in San Angelo, and the Renaissance Womens Center in Austin. In Maryland, she is in the collections of the Academy Art Museum in Easton, Sheppard Pratt Hospital, Towson, Miles and Stockbridge, in Baltimore, and the University of Maryland, University College, in Adelphi.

2013 Watercolor Studies Available
5 x 5" image size each
14 x 11" matted size each
$200 each matted









Truman and Crabapple, 2013
oil pastel and watercolor on paper, 26 x 40"
$1500







Irene and Tardiva, 2012
crayon and watercolor on paper, 26" x 40"
$1500





Blue, 2012
crayon and watercolor on paper, 22 x 30",
$1100





Irene, 2012
crayon and watercolor on paper, 22 x 30",
$1100





Young William, 2012
crayon and watercolor on paper, 22 x 30",
$1100





Wings, 2012
watercolor and oil pastel on paper, 30 x 22",
$1100





Wet Peacock, 2012
watercolor and oil pastel on paper, 30 x 22",
$1100





Shadow, 2012
watercolor and oil pastel on paper, 30 x 22",
Private collection





Truman and Irene, 2011
watercolor and oil pastel on paper, 22 x 30",
$1100





Peacock in a Tree, 2011
watercolor and oil pastel on paper, 22 x 30",
$1100





Wet Biscuit, 2011
watercolor and oil pastel on paper, 22 x 30",
$1100





Joe, 2011
watercolor and oil pastel on paper, 22 x 30",
$1100





Netta Asleep, 2011
watercolor and oil pastel on paper, 22 x 30",
$1100





Reach, 2011
watercolor and oil pastel on paper, 22 x 30",
$1100





Harley at the Tree Farm, 2011
oil on canvas, 12 x 12",
Private Collection





Kazoo, 2011
Watercolor and oil pastel on paper 22 x 30",
$1100





Swallow is Molting, 2010
Watercolor and oil pastel on paper 22 x 30",
$1100





Poppy, 2010
Watercolor and oil pastel on paper 30 x 22",
Collection of the Artist





Roux, 2011
Watercolor and oil pastel on paper 30 x 22",
$1100





Rooster, 2011
Watercolor and oil pastel on paper 30 x 22",
$1100





Mayflower, 2011
Watercolor and oil pastel on paper 30 x 22",
$1100





Harley and the White Datura 2009
oil on canvas  12" x 12",
Private collection





Stretch 2009
oil on canvas  12" x 12",
Private Collection





Beatrice 2010
crayon and watercolor on paper  22" x 30",
$1100 unframed





Vince 2010
crayon and watercolor on paper  22" x 30"
$1100 unframed





Ice 2010
crayon and watercolor on paper  22" x 30"
$1100 unframed





Tree Farm - Shade 2010
crayon and watercolor on paper  22" x 30"
$1100 unframed





Tree Farm - Shadows 2010
crayon and watercolor on paper  22" x 30"
$1100 unframed





Many Fishes 2010
oil on canvas 12" x 12"
Private Collection






Green Place - Chrysanthemum Farm triptych, 1998
crayon and watercolor on paper, each piece 29 1/2" x 41",
$4000






Heavy Apple, 2008
oil on canvas, 24 x 24",
$2650 framed






Cat Willow, 2007
oil on canvas, 24 x 24",
$2650 framed






Late Corn, 2007
oil on canvas, 24 x 24",
$2650 framed






Clouds & Cherries, 2008
oil on canvas, 24 x 24",
$2650 framed






Persimmon, 2007
oil pastel and watercolor on paper, 24 x 30",
Private Collection






Gourd Vines, 2007
oil pastel and watercolor on paper, 22 x 30"
$1100 unframed






Yellow Maple, 2008
oil pastel and watercolor on paper, 22 x 30"
$1100 unframed






August Sunflowers 2009
oil pastel and watercolor on paper, 22 x 30"
$1100 unframed






Tomato Cages 2009
oil pastel and watercolor on paper, 22 x 30"
$1100 unframed






Star Magnolia with Crocus 2009
oil pastel and watercolor on paper, 22 x 30"
$1100 unframed

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My work is fueled by a lifelong obsession with color and awe at the monstrous complexity of the natural world. For the last several years I have lived and painted in rural Maryland. I am in love with the weather, the crops, the light, the dirt, the weeds. I am especially interested in the places where people's plans for the landscape collide with the riot of life that is there to begin with. Plants have an agenda of their own. I like the silliness, the frailty, the vanity of the human marks. I like the tornado of forces at work in nature. There is so much more going on than we can say.