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Article: Museum accessions.(The World of Asher B. Durand: The Artist )
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- The Magazine Antiques
- Article date:
- April 1, 2007
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When she was a child, Katharine Pratt moved with her family from Boston to Dedham, Massachusetts, where she spent most of the rest of her life. She graduated in 1914 from the Boston Museum School, one of very few women who studied silversmithing there, and by 1918 she was a master craftsman member of the Society of Arts and Crafts, which had been founded in Boston in 1897 "for the purpose of promoting artistic work in all branches of handicraft." Never married, Pratt was recollected by one student many years later as "very shy ... hard to talk to, ... who put all her feelings into silver." Several years before her death she gave a group of her pieces to the Dedham ...