Katharine Beecher Stetson, 1885-1979

Sculptor and landscape painter Katharine Beecher Stetson was born in Providence, Rhode Island, the daughter of feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman and artist Charles W. Stetson. She studied in Rome, at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and with sculptor Frank Tolles Chamberlin, whom she later married. The couple lived in Pasadena, California, and had two children, Dorothy and Walter.

From the guide to the Papers of Katharine Beecher Stetson, 1827-1956, (Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute)