Kate Kelly (sculptor)

She was born in California, the daughter of suffragette Hester Lambert Harland.

She studied at the Partington Art School in San Francisco, where she met the painter and printmaker John Melville Kelly, whom she married in 1908.

Their plan was to stay a year, while John worked for an advertising agency creating material to promote tourism.

The Kellys immediately identified with the native Hawaiians and became their champions in images and in print.

Because of failing vision, Kate gave-up her own career in the mid-1930s and devoted herself to promoting that of her husband.