Nora Collyer was born in Montreal. She studied at the Art Association of Montreal, one of the few art institutions that admitted female students at the time. The school was directed by RCA president, William Brymner. At the AAM (which later became the Montreal Museum of Fine Art), she received professional instruction from Brymner and [...]
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Marian Dale was born into a well-to-do anglophone Montreal family in 1906. Recent immigrants to Canada, the Dales were part of that social milieu which sought to uphold the values and customs of Victorian England. A published author, Marian’s mother encouraged all her children to explore their creative gifts. At an early age Marian displayed a talent for painting and she was soon enrolled at the Art Association of Montreal.
Marian Scott had colleagues among Montreal’s anglophone and francophone arts communities alike. Over the course of the 1950s, she was invited to participate in numerous exhibitions of modern painting organized by the community of French speaking artists. She was included in the 1954 exhibition organized by Marcelle Ferron, entitled “Drawings by 12 Montreal Artists.” In 1956, she exhibited in the “panorama de la pientures montréalaise” along side artists such as Jean-Paul Riopelle and Alfred Pellan. Her art was recognized and accepted among the art vivant circles of the 1950s.
The artist died at her home in November, 1993. A pioneer of modern art in Canada, Marian Scott’s career had spanned the evolution of modern art in Canada, from its early awakening to the powerful force it became on the international scene.
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An important group of early twentieth Canadian artists was largely forgotten until 1966 when the National Gallery of Canada mounted a traveling exhibition entitled The Beaver Hall Hill Group. In the 1960s, when feminism was growing in strength, the exhibit focused attention on a group of women artists who had formed [...]
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