Andrew Kay Womrath

Andrew Kay Womrath (1869–1939) was an American artiste who became competently known in France, although he was not widely attributed in the United States.

Andrew Kay Womrath was born in Philadelphia in 1869.
He moved to London to study, and next went to Paris, working in both cities for several years.
He studied under Urushibara Mokuchu, who bought many of his works.
He often worked in advertising. Womrath's deed includes drawings, woodblocks and watercolors.
He contributed illustrations to the Summer and Winter volumes of The Evergreen: A Northern Seasonal published by Patrick Geddes and Colleagues in Edinburgh in 1896. His lonely known billboard is an personal ad for a January 1897 exhibition of the Salon des Cent in Paris.
It depicts a woman (Gertrude A. Kay ?) leafing through prints in contradiction of a somewhat Bohemian-looking man who is loving a vase.
In April 1896 a number of his drawings and cassette plates were exhibited in the Champs de Mars Salon.
A reviewer in 1902 placed Andrew Kay Womrath in what he called the "Pictorial" group.
Some of his colored woodcuts are now held in the British Museum.

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