Watson, Amelia Montague (American 1856-1934). ST. SIMON'S ISLAND - GARDEN. Watercolor on paper, c. 1920. Signed "Amelia M. Watson" lower right. 9 1/4 x 14 inches. A small spot of foxing, center, and some adhesive residue at the corners, verso, else in very good condition. Watson was born in Connecticut, taught at a summer school on Martha's Vineyard in the 1880s, exhibited in Boston in 1891-94. The small watercolor sketches she made in her own copy while reading Thoreau's "Cape Cod" were made into chromolithograph illustrations for the lovely two-volume edition published in 1896, and she also did the frontispiece illustrations for John Muir's "Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf." She later lived in North Carolina and Florida, and died in Orlando in 1934. She was particularly known for her watercolors of Southern scenery, such as this garden scene done on St. Simon's Island in Georgia.
