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An example of work by Aleen Aked
Artwork images are copyright of the artist or assignee
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Biography from Edward And Deborah Pollack Fine Art, LLC:
| Aleen Aked was born in England in 1907 and immigrated to Canada in
1910. From 1929 to 1944, winters were spent in Sarasota, Florida.
An avid golfer, she was an honorary Member of the Ladies golf Club of
Toronto from 1927 until the 1990s, and she was the Junior
Girl’s Champion in 1917, and the Club Champion from 1933-36.
She was a close friend of the famed Canadian “Group of Seven” painters
and studied with Arthur Lismer, Fred Varley, A. Y. Jackson among other
noted artists. In the winter of 1935, she also studied at the
Ringling School of Art in Sarasota, Florida. In 1936 she studied
privately in Sarasota with the acclaimed American artist, Abbott Graves.
From 1932-1939 she was a member of the Sarasota Art Association, and
was President in 1942. She also was a member of the Southern States Art
League and the Florida Federated Art program.
In 1935 she won a prize for the best landscape painting at the Ringling
Museum of Art in Sarasota, and won another prize there for the most
popular oil painting in 1938. She also exhibited at the Allied
Artists of America and the Royal Canadian Academy. In 1940, Aked
had a solo exhibition at the New York City Public Library and the
Sarasota Art Association. During World War II, Aked took a hiatus
from painting to contribute to the war effort, sending over 5,000
packages to the allied troops.
From 1946 there was a continuing solo exhibition of her paintings at the Ladies Golf Club of Toronto.
Aleen Aked died in 2003, leaving a legacy of a beautiful impressionist rendering of the Florida landscape and its people.
Sources include:
Peter Falk, Who Was Who in American Art
Joan Murray, The Art of Aleen Aked
Studio Guild (1940), an exhibition catalogue
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