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Sarah Robertson (painter)
Sarah Margaret Armour Robertson (June 16, 1891 – December 6, 1948) was a Canadian painter of landscapes, still lifes, portraits, and murals for private homes. Early life Robertson was born in Montreal on June 16, 1891, the daughter of John Armour Robertson and Jessie Anne Christie, and the oldest of four siblings. Her parents were originally from Scotland. She was educated in Montreal. During her childhood, the family lived comfortably, but later faced financial struggles. She began art studies at the age of nineteen with a Wood Scholarship to the Art Association of Montreal under William Brymner and Maurice Cullen. World War I interrupted her studies, after which she continued them from 1921 to 1924 under Randolph Hewton, a founding member of the Canadian Group of Painters, and Wood Scholarship winner. Artistic career During her last few years at the Art Association, Robertson joined former and current students, and fellow artists, along with her teacher Randolph Hewton ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montreal
Montreal is the List of towns in Quebec, largest city in the Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Quebec, the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, second-largest in Canada, and the List of North American cities by population, ninth-largest in North America. It was founded in 1642 as ''Fort Ville-Marie, Ville-Marie'', or "City of Mary", and is now named after Mount Royal, the triple-peaked mountain around which the early settlement was built. The city is centred on the Island of Montreal and a few, much smaller, peripheral islands, the largest of which is Île Bizard. The city is east of the national capital, Ottawa, and southwest of the provincial capital, Quebec City. the city had a population of 1,762,949, and a Census geographic units of Canada#Census metropolitan areas, metropolitan population of 4,291,732, making it the List of census metropolitan areas and agglomerations in Canada, second-largest metropolitan area in Canada. French l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riverside Museum
The Riverside Museum (replacing the preceding Glasgow Museum of Transport) is a museum in the Partick area of Glasgow, Scotland, housed in a building designed by Zaha Hadid, Zaha Hadid Architects, with its River Clyde frontage at the new Pointhouse Quay. It forms part of the Glasgow Harbour Urban renewal, regeneration project. The building opened in June 2011, winning the 2013 European Museum of the Year Award. It houses many exhibits of national and international importance. The Govan–Partick Bridge, which provides a pedestrian and cycle path link from the museum across the Clyde to Govan, opened in 2024. History Glasgow Museum of Transport (1964–2010) The Museum of Transport was opened in 14 April 1964 by Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. Created in the wake of the closure of Glasgow's Glasgow Corporation Tramways, tramway system in 1962, it was initially located at the former Coplawhill tram depot on Albert Drive in Pollokshields, before moving to the Kelvin Hall in 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wembley
Wembley () is a large suburbIn British English, "suburb" often refers to the secondary urban centres of a city. Wembley is not a suburb in the American sense, i.e. a single-family residential area outside of the city itself. in the London Borough of Brent, north-west London, northwest of Charing Cross. It includes the neighbourhoods of Alperton, Kenton, North Wembley, Preston, Sudbury, Tokyngton and Wembley Park. The population was 102,856 in 2011. Wembley was for over 800 years part of the parish of Harrow on the Hill in Middlesex. Its heart, Wembley Green, was surrounded by agricultural manors and their hamlets. The small, narrow, Wembley High Street is a conservation area. The railways of the London & Birmingham Railway reached Wembley in the mid-19th century, when the place gained its first church. Slightly south-west of the old core, the main station was originally called Sudbury, but today is known as Wembley Central. By the 1920s, the nearby long High Road hos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brockville
Brockville is a city in Eastern Ontario, Canada, in the Thousand Islands region. Although it is the seat of the United Counties of Leeds and Grenville, it is politically Independent city, independent of the county. It is included with Leeds and Grenville for census purposes only. Known as the "City of the 1000 Islands", Brockville is situated on the land which was previously inhabited by the St. Lawrence Iroquoians and later by the Oswegatchie people. Brockville is one of Ontario's oldest communities established by United Empire Loyalist, Loyalist settlers and is named after the British general Sir Isaac Brock. Tourist attractions in Brockville include the Brockville Tunnel, Fulford Place, and the Aquatarium (Ontario), Aquatarium. History Human inhabitation of the upper St. Lawrence River dates at least to the late Middle Woodland period by the Point Peninsula complex, Point Peninsula people. Iron oxide rock art, pictographs on rock faces have been documented on the Fulford Pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Group Of Seven
The Group of Seven (G7) is an Intergovernmentalism, intergovernmental political and economic forum consisting of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States; additionally, the European Union (EU) is a "non-enumerated member". It is organized around shared values of Cultural pluralism, pluralism, liberal democracy, and Representative democracy, representative government. G7 members are major Developed country#IMF advanced economies, IMF advanced economies. Originating from an ''ad hoc'' gathering of finance ministers in 1973, the G7 has since become a formal, high-profile venue for discussing and coordinating solutions to major list of global issues, global issues, especially in the areas of trade, security, economics, and climate change. Each member's head of government or head of state, state, along with the EU's President of the European Commission, Commission president and President of the European Council, European Council president, mee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ethel Seath
Ethel Seath (February 5, 1879 – April 10, 1963) was a Canadian artist. Seath was a prominent figure on the Montreal art scene for sixty years and her artistic work included being a painter, printmaker (etching), commercial artist, and art instructor at the all-girls private school, The Study, in Montreal. Seath’s oil and watercolour paintings were primarily still life and landscape, exploring colour and adding abstract elements to everyday scenes. Career Due to her father’s failing business, chronic health issues and later separation from her mother, Seath joined the workforce right after high school to help support her mother and four siblings. She spent two decades as a commercial illustrator for various newspapers, the '' Montreal Witness'' and later the ''Montreal Star'', constantly improving with supportive mentors at the companies. Seath achieved success within her illustrative career and financially she was able to afford art classes at the Art Association of Mont ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Savage (artist)
Anne (Annie) Douglas Savage (July 27, 1896 – March 25, 1971) was a Canadian painter and art teacher known for her lyrical, rhythmic landscapes. She was a founding member of the Canadian Group of Painters. Early life Savage was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, the daughter of John Savage, a wealthy industrialist. She grew up in what was then the rural area of Dorval, Quebec, and spent her summers at the family cottage in the Laurentian Mountains, where she developed a love of her surroundings that became a source of inspiration for her art. She studied at the High School of Montreal. Artistic career Between 1914 and 1918, Savage studied art at the Art Association of Montreal under several instructors including William Brymner (1855–1925) and Maurice Cullen. Her private world was permanently changed when her beloved twin brother was killed in action in France during World War I. After the end of the war, Savage went to Minneapolis, Minnesota where she studied design at the M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lilias Torrance Newton
Lilias Torrance Newton LL. D. (November 3, 1896 – January 10, 1980) was a Canadian painterMayberry Fine Art biography /ref>Canadian Women Artists History Initiative biography /ref> and a member of the . She was one of the more important portrait artists in Canada in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kathleen Morris
Kathleen "Kay" Moir Morris (December 2, 1893 – December 20, 1986) was a Canadian painter and although not an official member of the Beaver Hall Group, she often is counted as a member since she was friendly with many of its members and exhibited with them. Biography The fourth child and only daughter of Montague John Morris and Eliza Howard Bell, she was born in Montreal, Quebec and was educated there, going on to study for ten years (1907–1917) at the Art Association of Montreal with William Brymner. She also spent two summers under Maurice Cullen at his outdoor sketching classes. Her father died in 1914, the same year she began to exhibit with the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts and the Art Association of Montreal. In the early 1920s she was associated with the Beaver Hall Group and in 1921 she began to show with the Ontario Society of Artists. In 1922 Morris went to live with her mother in Ottawa, Ontario. Eliza Bell was a strong woman with feminist opinions, and enco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mabel May
Henrietta Mabel May (or H. Mabel May as she was sometimes known) (September 11, 1877 – October 8, 1971) was a Canadian artist in the early 20th century. She helped organize two significant groups of Canadian artists and extended collegiality to women within those groups. Career Henrietta Mabel May was born in Montreal and grew up in Verdun and Westmount. As a teenager, May showed an interest in art; however due to a sense of family responsibility, May, the fifth of ten children, postponed academic studies until her mid-twenties to look after her younger siblings. She enrolled at the Art Association of Montreal, where she studied with William Brymner and Alberta Cleland until 1912. Much like other Brymner students, she was then encouraged to travel to Europe. She spent a year there, from 1912 to 1913, during which she and her friend Emily Coonan travelled to Paris, Brittany, and London, among other places. The work she painted abroad, genre scenes and figure groupings dem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mabel Lockerby
Mabel Irene Lockerby (March 13, 1882 – May 1, 1976) was a Canadian artist. Career Lockerby`s birth year is sometimes attributed as 1887 from her own curriculum vitae but she was actually born in 1882 She was born in Montreal to Alexander Lockerby, a grocer, and Barbara Cox and had seven siblings, of whom four survived to adulthood. According to the family bible, the family grew up in a number of houses on MacKay street in Montreal She studied at the Art Association of Montreal with William Brymner and Maurice Cullen winning two awards, one for her drawing in the "antique class" (1902) and another for composition (1911). In 1914 she began to exhibit in the annual Spring Exhibition at the Association and continued to paint throughout the First World War. She was a member of the Beaver Hall Group. She exhibited regularly with the group and in 1926 the National Gallery of Canada purchased one of her works. She joined the Canadian Group of Painters in 1939 and was a member o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emily Coonan
Emily Coonan (25 March 1885 – 23 June 1971) was a Canadian impressionist and post-impressionist painter, born in the Pointe-Saint-Charles area of Montreal. As a member of the Beaver Hall Group, Coonan mostly did figure paintings. Influenced by William Brymner and James Wilson Morrice in early years and later on by work done in Europe, Coonan's work has features that are related both to impressionism and modernism. Early life The daughter of William Coonan, a machinist for the Grand Trunk Railway, and Mary Anne Fullerton, she was born in the Pointe-Saint-Charles neighbourhood of Montreal and was educated at the nearby St. Ann's Academy for Girls. Emily was encouraged to study art early on when she was enrolled in art classes at the Conseil des Arts & Manufactures around 1898, with the instructors Edmond Dyonnet, Joseph Charles Franchere, Joseph Saint-Charles, and Charles Gill (artist), Charles Gill. She then studied at the Art Association of Montreal with William Brymner betwe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
