Karen Latham is an American
painter
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ai ...
, residing in
Hastings, Minnesota
Hastings is a city mostly in Dakota County, Minnesota, of which it is the county seat, with a portion in Washington County, Minnesota. It is near the confluence of the Mississippi River, Mississippi, Vermillion, and St. Croix River (Wisconsin-M ...
.
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Artists for Conservation Organization. Retrieved October 23, 2008 Latham is most known for her
realistic miniature paintings of wildlife. Latham is the mother of Bonnie and Rebecca Latham, also painters in the same style.
Biography
Karen Latham began painting portraits at the age of 10. As a child she painted with watercolors and acrylics. She has owned the Nature's Palette Gallery in
Hastings, Minnesota
Hastings is a city mostly in Dakota County, Minnesota, of which it is the county seat, with a portion in Washington County, Minnesota. It is near the confluence of the Mississippi River, Mississippi, Vermillion, and St. Croix River (Wisconsin-M ...
, where she has held art classes.
She is married to Ken Latham a chemical engineer at
3M. Latham home schooled her artistic daughters,
Bonnie, born in 1984,
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Artists for Conservation Organization. Retrieved October 23, 2008
Latham paints wildlife, using acrylics, in naturalist, realist, representationism and realism styles. She also makes portraits. Karen Latham and her daughter, Rebecca, illustrated the ''V is for Viking'' (2003) children's book,
and their work was included in the ''P is for Passport'' (2003) book.
Karen won an Award of Excellence for ''In the Light'' at a
Society of Animal Artists exhibition in 2004. Latham was an award winner at the national 2004 and 2005 Arts for the Parks contests. One of Karen's paintings was selected for the 2008 Illinois Conservation Stamp.
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Latham women
Karen Latham exhibits with her daughters, Bonnie and Rebecca, all of whom make
realist paintings of wildlife in miniature.
The girls started to paint in earnest about the age of 12 and their works were shown in the family's art gallery, by or before 2000.
Bonnie's painting of a
pintail duck was selected for the 2000 Federal
Junior duck stamp,
[Bonnie is the second girl to win the contest since it began in 1993. Rebecca finished 10th in the adult Federal Duck Stamp competition in 1999 and 2nd in 1998.] The winning stamp was sold for $5 as a collectible stamp.
Rebecca's paintings have been selected for the 2009 Illinois Conservation Stamp
and 2003
Minnesota Turkey Stamp.
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. Latham Official Website. Retrieved October 23, 2008
The Latham women's paintings have been shown in the
Smithsonian,
Nature in Art museum (UK),
Hiram Blauvelt
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museum, and the
Gilcrease Museum.
In 2007, all three exhibited their work at Seaside Art Gallery in Nags Head, North Carolina for the 16th International Miniature Art Show. Their artwork has been featured in numerous art publications
including Wildlife Art magazine and Wildscape Magazine.
[Wildscape Magazine 2006, UK Ken Stroud.] All three women have each been named "artist of the year" by conservation organizations,
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Hadley Art Licensing Company. Retrieved October 23, 2008 are members of many
art and wildlife societies,
and are signature members of the
Society of Animal Artists, which means that they participated in 15 or more annual exhibitions.
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External links
Official website
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American women painters
People from Hastings, Minnesota
Painters from Minnesota
Artist families
American bird artists
21st-century American women artists