Greenaway, Kate (Catherine) (1846–1901)

English illustrator. She specialized in drawings of children. In 1877 she first exhibited at the Royal Academy, London, and began her collaboration with the colour printer Edmund Evans (1826–1905), with whom she produced a number of children's books, including Mother Goose. Since 1955 the Greenaway Medal has been awarded annually to the best British illustrated book for children.

She was born in London, the daughter of John Greenaway (1846–1901), an engraver with the London Illustrated News, and studied art at the Slade School, London. Her works were very popular in Britain and the rest of Europe and in the USA, and she had such unlikely admirers as the art critic John Ruskin and the French post‐Impressionist Paul Gauguin.