Eva Koves Stubbs (20 April 1925 – 16 December 2017) was a
Hungarian-born Canadian artist and educator.
Career
Stubbs was born Eva Koves in
Budapest
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, the daughter of Jewish parents, grew up in
Barcelona
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and
Tangier
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, and came to
Winnipeg
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with her parents in 1942. She married Hyman Wolinsky soon afterwards; the couple had a son, film editor
Sidney Wolinsky
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in 1947. She and her husband Hyman Wolinsky were of
Jewish
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background.
Later that same year, she was diagnosed with
tuberculosis
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and moved into a
sanitarium in
Saint Boniface
Boniface, OSB (born Wynfreth; 675 –5 June 754) was an English Benedictines, Benedictine monk and leading figure in the Anglo-Saxon mission to the Germanic parts of Francia during the eighth century. He organised significant foundations of ...
. Stubbs received a fine arts diploma from the
University of Manitoba
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in 1957. She also attended summer classes at the
Cranbrook Academy of Art
The Cranbrook Academy of Art, a graduate school for architecture, art, and design, was founded by George Gough Booth and Ellen Scripps Booth in 1932. It is the art school of the Cranbrook Educational Community. Located in Bloomfield Hills, Mi ...
in
Michigan
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, the
University of Minnesota
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and the
Banff School of the Arts.
[
She separated from her husband and moved with her son to ]Montreal
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, where she taught high school art classes from 1959 to 1963. Stubbs subsequently returned to Winnipeg, where she married lawyer Harold St. George Stubbs and had another son. She later taught art classes at the Winnipeg Art Gallery
The Winnipeg Art Gallery (WAG) is an art museum in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Its permanent collection includes over 24,000 works from Canadian, Indigenous Canadian, and international artists. The museum also holds the world's largest collect ...
and Lakehead University
Lakehead University is a public research university with campuses in Thunder Bay and Orillia, Ontario, Canada. Lakehead University, shortened to 'Lakehead U', is non-denominational and provincially supported. It has undergraduate programs, gradua ...
. She was a founding member of SITE, an artist-run co-operative gallery in Winnipeg and was a mentor in the advisory program for the organization Mentoring Artists for Women's Art. She was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts
The Royal Canadian Academy of Arts (RCA) is a Canadian arts-related organization that was founded in 1880.
History 1880 to 1890
The title of Royal Canadian Academy of Arts was received from Victoria of the United Kingdom, Queen Victoria on 16 ...
in 1995.[
Stubbs held her first solo exhibition in 1976. She worked in wood, bronze and clay, producing realistic and abstract human figures. She completed a series of bronze panels for the Manitoba Law Courts building. The Winnipeg Art Gallery held a ]retrospective
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of her work in 2010.[ Stubbs also created a number of bronze busts for the Winnipeg Citizen's Hall of Fame in ]Assiniboine Park
Assiniboine Park (formerly known as City Park) is a park in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, located along the Assiniboine River.
The Winnipeg Public Parks Board was formed in 1893, and purchased the initial land for the park in 1904. Although in use ...
.
She died in Winnipeg in 2017.
References
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1925 births
2017 deaths
Canadian women sculptors
Hungarian emigrants to Canada
Members of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts
University of Manitoba alumni