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MARTIN, Bernice Fenwick
- Born
- Shelbourne, Ontario, 1902
- Died
- Toronto, Ontario, 1999
- Biography synopsis
- Bernice Fenwick Martin was born in Shelbourne, Ontario in 1902. Her interest in drawing was evident from a young age and she first became an art student at Toronto Technical Schools as a teenager. She later studied at the Ontario College of Art under J. W. Beatty and Franklin Carmichael throughout the 1920s and 1930s. Martin was a painter and a printmaker. Her paintings were featured in the Royal Canadian Academy exhibitions from 1945 to 1947 and she held one-woman shows at Eaton's College Street Fine Art Galleries, at Casa Loma, at the Hamilton Art Gallery and at the Towne Cinema in Toronto.
- Media used
- Oil painting
- Pen and Ink
- Printmaking
- Watercolour
- Education
- Ontario College of Art & Design (formerly Ontario School of Art) (under J.W. Beatty, Franklin Carmichael)
- University of Toronto
- Toronto Technical Schools
- University of Alberta (under Toshi Yoshida)
- McMaster University
- Memberships
- Canadian Society of Painters, Etchers and Engravers
- Print and Drawing Council of Canada
- File & Archive locations
- Winnipeg Art Gallery, MA - Clara Lander Library
- Canadian Women Artists History Initiative Documentation Centre, QC
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
Writings about- "'Memories Are All I Have,' Says Fraud Victim." Ottawa Citizen 16 Jan. 1987: A1
- "Bilked of Wealth, Widow Lives in Poverty." Gazette (Montreal) 16 Jan. 1987: B1
- "Engineer Gets Five Years for Fraud Against Widow." Windsor Star 10 Nov. 1988: A15
- "Fraud Artist Cheated Widow, Gets Five Years." Vancouver Sun 10 Nov. 1988: B9
- "Fraud Artist Gets 5 Years." Gazette (Montreal) 10 Nov. 1988: B7
- "Fraud Trial Verdict Wednesday." Toronto Star 21 Oct. 1988: A16
- "Fraud Victim Says Accused 'Controlled' Her." Toronto Star 23 Sept. 1988: A31
- "Galleries." Toronto Star 27 Apr. 2006: G7
- "Judge Jails Engineer for Bilking Widow." Ottawa Citizen 10 Nov. 1988: A14
- "Man Convicted of Fleecing Elderly Widow of $500,000." Toronto Star 27 Oct. 1988: A9
- "Man Guilty of 'Fleecing' Widow, 86." Ottawa Citizen 27 Oct. 1988: A24
- American Federation of Arts. Who's Who in American Art, 1978. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 1978
- Coffey, Bernice. "Portrait of the Artist." Toronto Saturday Night (17 Jan. 1953): 35
- Darroch, Wendy. "Defrauded, Destitute Widow Forced from Home, Trial Told." Toronto Star 16 Sept. 1988: A5
- Darroch, Wendy. "Destitute Widow Paid $700 Rent, Trial Told." Toronto Star 16 Oct. 1988: H8
- Darroch, Wendy. "Elderly Widow Was Not Being Forced to Go to Cottage in Winter, Court Told." Toronto Star 14 Oct. 1988: E25
- Darroch, Wendy. "Elderly Widow Would Have Died in Wilderness Camp, Court Told." Toronto Star 8 Oct. 1988: A14
- Darroch, Wendy. "Homes, Paintings Taken by Fraud Widow Tells Court." Toronto Star 15 Sept. 1988: A4
- Darroch, Wendy. "Man Found Guilty in $500,000 Fraud Against Widow." Toronto Star 27 Oct. 1988: A28
- Darroch, Wendy. "Man Guilty of Bilking Widow of $500,000." Toronto Star 26 Oct. 1988: A1
- Darroch, Wendy. "Man Who Cheated Widow of 86 Goes to Jail for 5 Years." Toronto Star 9 Nov. 1988: A1
- Darroch, Wendy. "Went into Debt for Widow, Man Tells Trial." Toronto Star 12 Oct. 1988: A19
- Darroch, Wendy. "Widow Cried During Eviction, Process Server Tells Fraud Trial." Toronto Star 7 Oct. 1988: A19
- Darroch, Wendy. "Widow Didn't Know About Mortgages Friend Took Out on Home, Court Told." Toronto Star 21 Sept. 1988: E8
- Darroch, Wendy. "Widow Loses Homes, Painting to Neighbor's Fraud." Toronto Star 15 Sept. 1988: A1
- Darroch, Wendy. "Widow Put Up Home Willingly, Trial Told." Toronto Star 13 Oct. 1988: A33
- Darroch, Wendy. "Widow Tells Court of 'Survival' Trip." Toronto Star 17 Sept. 1988: A19
- Darroch, Wendy. "Widow Weeps in Court Over Warning of Fraud." Toronto Star 20 Sept. 1988: H8
- Donovan, Kevin. "Aged Artist Overwhelmed by Response to Her Plight." Toronto Star 18 Jan. 1987: A3
- Donovan, Kevin. "Bilked of Fortune, Widow Still Says 'Life's Worth Living'." Toronto Star 29 Oct. 1988: C7
- Donovan, Kevin. "Offers of Help and Friendship Flood in to Artist, 84, Who Lost Home, Savings." Toronto Star 16 Jan. 1987: A2
- Donovan, Kevin. "Widow Awaits Trustee's Help After Fraud." Toronto Star 15 Mar. 1990: A2
- Donovan, Kevin. "Widowed Artist, 84, Has Lost Life Savings, Home and Paintings, ..." Toronto Star 15 Jan. 1987: A1
- Downey, Donn. "'Clever Liar' Guilty of Fleecing Widow." Globe and Mail 27 Oct. 1988: A3
- Downey, Donn. "Man Gets Five Years for Cheating Widow." Globe and Mail 10 Nov. 1988: A26
- Financial Post. "News Digest: Canada." Financial Post 10 Nov. 1988: 2
- Flavelle, Dana. "Man Got Appraisal of Property Owned by Neighbor, Court Told." Toronto Star 2 Oct. 1988: A20
- McMann, Evelyn de Rostaing. Royal Canadian Academy of Arts/Académie royale des arts du Canada: Exhibitions and Members 1880-1979 Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1981
- Mitchell, Bob. "'Can't Get Blood From a Stone' Widow Says as Con Man Jailed." Toronto Star 10 Nov. 1988: A8
- Spitzer, John. "Law Society Should Buy Martin's House Back." Toronto Star 9 Nov. 1988: A22
- Tyler, Tracey. "Widow Knew Home Mortgaged Her Ex-Lawyer Tells Fraud Trial." Toronto Star 29 Sept. 1988: A24
- Tyler, Tracey. "Woman 'Hysterical' Following Eviction." Toronto Star 30 Sept. 1988: A17
