Kate Sullivan is a Boston-based artist and a member of Boston's prestigious Copley Society. A painter and draftsman, she takes her subjects from the urban landscape and the engines of transportation. Her drawings, painting and watercolors are characterized by their extreme sense of realism. Though they are sometimes mistaken for photos, they always depart in significant ways from the photographs which are their inspiration. Her work in in many private and public collections, including that of the Boston Atheneum.