Katharine Buzzell Shackelford Benepe, American, 1899 to 1988, oil painting on cardboard, Madonna with Child. Signed with initials, lower left. Framed. Additionally inscribed, on the backside. Katharine Buzzell Benepe is known for Portrait and landscape painting, Indian and Hispanic subjects. A painter of landscapes, and Indian subjects including residents of Mexico, Katharine Benepe, who also painted under the name of Katharine Shackelford, was born in Fort Benton, Montana and settled in Glendale, California. There she was a member of the Los Angeles Art Association; the San Diego Art Guild; the Glendale Art Association, which she served as President; and the Los Angeles Society of Independent Artists. In the 1930s, she was an art teacher at Glendale High School, and she exhibited regionally with the Society of Western Artists and Women Painters of the West. One of a kind artwork.