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Judging the Farmers’ Cobs at Widecombe Fair
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
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- The following information is from the Canadian Women Artists
History Initiative,
http://cwahi.concordia.ca/sources/artists/displayArtist.php?ID_artist=101
- ALICE DES CLAYES
- Born: Aberdeen Grampian, Scotland, 1890
- Died: England?, 1968
- Biography synopsis
- Best known for her animal and rural genre scenes, the youngest of the
Des Clayes sisters came to Montreal in 1914, after studying at the
Bushey School of Art and the Newland School of Art in England. A
regular exhibitor in the Royal Canadian Academy and the Montreal Museum
of Fine Arts spring shows between 1914 and 1940, Alice was elected to
the Royal Canadian Academy in 1920.
- Other distinctions include a
reproduction of her work Remounts in Newton MacTavish's book The
Fine Arts in Canada in 1925. Experimenting with a variety of media,
she worked in watercolours, oils, pastels and coloured chalks. She
returned to England in 1938.
- In Canada, her work can be found in
several galleries, including the National Gallery of Canada and the Art
Gallery of Ontario.
- Media used
- Painting
- Watercolour
- Education
- Bushey School of Art, Bushey, England (under Lucy Kemp-Welch and Rowland Wheelwright)
- Newlyn School of Art, Newlyn, England
- Private study (under Dudley Hardy)
- Memberships
- Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, 1920
- Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour, 1926
- File & Archive locations
- Art Gallery of Ontario - Edward P. Taylor Research Library and Archives
- National Gallery of Canada - Library and Archives
- Toronto Reference Library
- Montreal Museum of Fine Arts - Library and Archives
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Writings By
- Edwards, Ethel; illustrated by Alice Des Clayes. "Burham's Disillusionment." Canadian Magazine 49.1 (May 1917): 21-31.
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