Kathleen Laetitia "Kate" O'Connor (14 September 1876 – 24 August 1968) was an impressionist painter with a career in Western Australia and France.

She was educated at Marsden School, Wellington and by private tuition in Perth from 1891,[1] including lessons from artist Florence Fuller.

She worked for a time in fashionable department stores in Sydney then moved to Paris, France where she lived (apart from the war years which she spent, miserably, in London) from 1907 to 1950.

In Perth she frequently exhibited at the Claude Hotchin Galleries, including several one-woman shows.

McCulloch, Alan Encyclopaedia of Australian Art Hutchinson of London 1968 Hutchins, Patrick "Last Link with Impressionism" Bulletin, Sydney, 4 March 1967