Senior Specialist & Appraiser, Eastern Ontario & Quebec Representative, Cowley Abbott

Katherine was inspired to pursue a career in the art world while studying Fine Arts at Dawson College, where art history electives ultimately piqued her interest most. This newfound passion led her to pursue a degree in art history at Concordia University. During her undergraduate years, Katherine participated in a Study Abroad program, in which she attended La Sorbonne in Paris. Upon receiving her Bachelor of Fine Arts, Katherine completed two internships in Denver, Colorado. One position was at The Denver Art Museum in the curatorial sector of the Modern and Contemporary art department, the other in Research and Collections at The Clyfford Still Museum, prior to its opening to the public. The large Clyfford Still collection and archives, that had been untouched for over thirty years, inspired Katherine to pursue a Master’s degree at Université de Montréal, where her area of research focused on Still’s transformation from the figurative to the abstract.

Katherine’s professional experience includes over three years at a Montreal auction house as a cataloguer of fine and decorative arts. In this position she examined a multitude of objects including Canadian and international art, antique European furniture, fine silver and others.  Katherine also co-authored a published catalogue of an important Canadian private art collection, where her texts focused largely on Post-war Canadian and American abstract painting. Since 2016, Katherine has worked at Cowley Abbott as an Art Specialist, and since 2020 as the Montreal Representative for the firm. She has been a certified personal property appraiser since 2014, and certified with the ISA since 2020.

Katherine is fluent in English and French.