Katherine Bradford began painting when she was living in Maine year round in the 70’s. She moved to New York City in the 80’s but continues to return each summer to her home on the coast of Maine. She is best known for her paintings of ships and of swimmers that are inspired by artists such as Marsden Hartley, Milton Avery and Alex Katz.
Bradford was born in 1942 in New York City and attended Byrn Mawr College (B.A.) and Purchase College (MFA). She is represented in New York by CANADA, in Berlin by Phillipp Haverkampf, in Portland, Oregon by Adams and Ollman, in Paris and London by Campoli Presti and in Maine by Caldbeck Gallery.
In 2011 she received a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Joan Mitchell Foundation Award in 2012. Other awards include a Pollock Krasner Grant and two awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Bradford was a resident faculty member at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2009) and in 2016-2017 was Senior critic at the Yale School of Art in New Haven.
