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LOCKERBY, Mabel Irene

Born
Montreal, Quebec, 1882
Died
Montreal, Quebec, 1976
Biography synopsis
Mabel Irene Lockerby studied at the Art Association of Montreal with William Brymner and Maurice Cullen. She was a member of the Beaver Hall Hill group in 1920. In 1928 she won honorable mention at the Willingdon Arts competition. Her painting “Early Winter” was bought by the National Gallery of Canada, and her work "Old Forts” by the Art Gallery of Ontario. She exhibited with the Canadian Group of Painters, the Royal Canadian Academy, and the Contemporary Arts Society. Her work was included at Wembley, the Carnegie International, the World’s Fair, New York (1939) and at Sao Paulo’s 400th Anniversary (1954).
Media used
Painting
Education
Art Association of Montreal (under William Brymner; Maurice Cullen)
Memberships
Beaver Hall Group, 1920
File & Archive locations
Art Gallery of Ontario - Edward P. Taylor Research Library and Archives
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts / Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, QC
National Gallery of Canada, ON - Library and Archives
University of British Columbia - Fine Arts Library
Winnipeg Art Gallery, MA - Clara Lander Library
Artexte Information Centre, QC - Documentation Centre
Canadian Women Artists History Initiative Documentation Centre, QC
Library and Archives Canada / Bibliothèque et Archives Canada, ON
BIBLIOGRAPHY

Writings about
"...Marian Scott's paintings have never flowed..." Toronto Saturday Night (11 Jan. 1941)
"59 Paintings Auctioned for Refugees' Benefit Bring Total of $2459." Ottawa Citizen 4 Oct. 1940
"Art Association's Spring Exhibition: Private View Ushered in Showing of Representative Assemblage of Work." Gazette (Montreal) 3 Apr. 1925
"Art Exhibit Discussed: Private Showing Given Members of Windsor Association." Windsor Star 1 Dec. 1942
"Art Gallery Spring Show Juries Pick 119 Items From 1,400 Entries." Gazette (Montreal) 04 Mar. 1948
"At Art Association: Lyman, Roberts, Muhlstock, Surrey and Beder Give Balance to Uneven Show." Gazette (Montreal) 2 Feb. 1946
"C.A.C. Holding Exhibit At Dominion Gallery." Gazette (Montreal) 11 Nov. 1944
"Canadian Group Show at Art Association: Varied Offerings Occupy Two Main Galleries." Gazette (Montreal) 8 Jan. 1944
"Canadian School is Well Represented at the Art Exhibition." Herald (Montreal) 25 Mar. 1922
"Coast to Coast in Art." Canadian Art 6.4 (1947): 178
"Des artistes qui affirment de beaux dons." La Presse (Montreal) 21 Jan. 1922
"Exhibits At Spring Show Now Open Number Nearly 500." Montreal Herald and Daily Telegraph 26 Mar. 1915
"Fine Arts ... Paintings Are Shown By Canadian Group." Gazette (Montreal) 6 Feb. 1943
"Fine Work Marks R.C.A. Exhibition." Gazette (Montreal) 20 Nov. 1925
"Governor-General Arts Competition Results Announced." Montreal Star 4 May 1929
"High Standard Set by R.C.A. Pictures: Forty-Fourth Exhibition Opened With Private View Last Night." Gazette (Montreal) 17 Nov. 1922: 9
"Le Salon du Printemps." La Patrie (Montreal) 26 Mar. 1928: 17
"Les Expositions Au Musée des beaux-arts." La Presse (Montreal) 13 Dec. 1952
"Meritorious Work At Spring Exhibit: Mural Paintings in R.C.A. Competition Part of Entries at Art Gallery." Gazette (Montreal) 28 Mar. 1924
"Montreal Artists Well Represented: High Standard Set at Spring Exhibition of Art Association." Gazette (Montreal) 16 Mar. 1923: 6
"Oil Paintings Now on Display Here." Times-Globe (Saint John) 2 Nov. 1943: G1
"Old World Port Still Hums." Beaver (Oakville, Ontario) 7 Dec. 1967
"Picture Sale Aiding Orphans in Spain." Gazette (Montreal) 5 Mar. 1938
"Private View Held at Art Exhibition." Gazette (Montreal) 27 Mar. 1926
"Profuse Variety Marks Art Show: Third Exhibition of Works by Quebec Artists at Eaton Galleries." Montreal Star 13 May 1930
"Quelques héros de Louis Hémon en sculpture." La Presse (Montreal) 24 Mar. 1922
"Refreshing Art Exhibition On View at Gallery." Ottawa Evening Journal 19 Dec. 1942
"Remarquable exposition de tableaux et d'études." La Presse (Montreal) 15 Dec. 1925: 23
"Royal Canadian Academy Exhibition has Work by Artists Now at Front." Gazette (Montreal) 19 Nov. 1915
"Scholarships for Art Students Awarded." Witness (Montreal) 17 May 1913
"Spring Art Show has 478 Exhibits." Gazette (Montreal) 26 Mar. 1915
"Spring Exhibition at Art Galleries: Younger Men and Women Encouraged by Jury of Selection." Gazette (Montreal) 23 Mar. 1928: 8
"Spring Exhibition At Art Gallery: Opened For Private View Last Night With Many Meritorious Works." Gazette (Montreal) 26 Mar. 1913
"Spring Exhibition of Art Association was Opened on Thursday." Toronto Star 12 Mar. 1933
"Une Visite à l'exposition de peintures." La Presse (Montreal) 22 Mar. 1922: 5
"Variety in Offerings Marks CAS Exhibition." Gazette (Montreal) 07 Feb. 1948
"Variety In Subjects at CAS Annual Show." Unknown (Montreal) 16 Nov. 1946
"Women's Works on Exhibit." Standard (Montreal) 2 Apr. 1949
"Worthy Effort Made By Members of C.A.S." Gazette (Montreal) 7 Nov. 1942
Art Gallery of Toronto. Mabel Lockerby, Pegi Nicol Macleod, Kathleen Morris, Marian Scott. Toronto: Art Gallery of Toronto, 1941
Ayre, Robert. "Art News and Reviews: Exhibition of 'Art of Our Day' By Contemporary Arts Society Found Haunting and Significant." Standard (Montreal) 12 Jul. 1940: 7
Ayre, Robert. "Art: Two Exhibitions." Montrealer (Feb. 1937)
Ayre, Robert. "Arts Club Exhibition by Eleven Painters." Gazette (Montreal) 3 Feb. 1937
Ayre, Robert. "Significant Exhibition at Toronto by Diligent Canadian Group of Painters 'Bristling With Signs of the Times'." Standard (Toronto) 18 Nov. 1939: M6
Ayre, Robert. "Six Montreal Women at the M.M.F.A." Montreal Daily Star 6 May 1950
Ayre, Robert. "The Canadian Group of Painters." Canadian Art 6.3 (Spring 1949): 98-102
Ayre, Robert. "Toronto Honors memory of Artist; Exhibition of Thomson Paintings Includes Loans of Principal Work." Standard (Montreal) 1941
Bertrand, Magdeleine. Les Femmes artistes du Québec de 1875 à 1925. Montreal: Université de Montréal, 1990
Canadian Group of Painters. Canadian Group of Painters, Exhibition 1942. Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1942
Canadian Group of Painters. Canadian Group of Painters, Exhibition 1955-1956. Montreal: 1956
Canadian Group of Painters. Canadian Group of Painters, Exhibition 1958. Vancouver: 1958
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Contemporary Arts Society. Seventh Annual Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings, 1946. Montreal: Art Association of Montreal, 1946
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Davies, Blodwen. "Canadian Women of Brush and Chisel." Chatelaine 3 (Jun. 1930): 9, 42
Delisle, Jacques. "À la Dominion Gallery of Fine Arts." Le Devoir (Montreal) 21 Nov. 1944: 3
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Gagnon, François. "Figures humaines, visions de hasard." La Presse 7 Feb. 1948
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Writings by
Lockerby, Mabel. "Pink House (Illustration)." Toronto Saturday Night (22 Apr. 1944)

Full text pdfs of exhibition reviews
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Variety in Spring Picture Exhibit. Private View Opened 31st Spring Show at Art Gallery Last Night. Works Number Over 400. Sanity, Sincerity and Progress Characterize Majority of Pictures-Various Branches Well Represented."  Gazette (Montreal)  .  p.11.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Spring Art Show Has 478 Exhibits. Even Excellence Dominant Note at Art Association Which Opened Last Night. Nothing Very Daring."  Gazette (Montreal)  .  p.5.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Royal Canadian Academy of Arts Open Galleries. 288 Fine Pictures on Exhibition at 37th Annual Exhibition."  Montreal Herald  .  p.5.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, ) Henri Fabien.  "Beaux-arts. Le salon d'automne à la galerie des arts."  Le Devoir (Montreal)  .  p.1.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, ) H. Mortimer-Lamb.  "Studio-Talk"  Studio  .  pp. 62-70.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Younger Artists Well Represented. Some Leading Exhibitors Are Absent from Thirty-Third Spring Exhibition."  Gazette (Montreal)  .  p.6.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "No Freak Pictures at Spring Show. Big Exhibition at Art Gallery but Works Small in Size. An Added Attraction: French War Posters, Medals and Souvenirs on View to Aid Red Cross Work."  Gazette (Montreal)  .  p.13.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) S. Morgan-Powell.  "Spring Show at Art Gallery is Return to Sanity. Tendency to Formlessness Freak Coloring and Distortions Gone."  Montreal Star  .  p.2.   Full-text pdf
The Joint Annual Exhibition of the RCA and the OSA: (Toronto; Montreal (Fall), ) "Spring Exhibit at Art Gallery. Returned Soldier Exhibits Two Works Sketched at the Front. Four Artists Overseas. Late Exhibition of R.C.A. Held Works that Usually Came to Montreal - Good Watercolors."  Gazette (Montreal)  .  p.7.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Spring Exhibition at Art Gallery. Returned Soldier Exhibits Two Works Sketched at the Front."  Gazette (Montreal)  .  p.5.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Artist's Efforts Reach High Level."  Gazette (Montreal)  .  p.6.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Art of Canadians Well Represented."  Gazette (Montreal)  .  p.9.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, ) Ramsay Traquair.  "Royal Canadian Academy."  Canadian Forum  .  1.3: pp.83-85.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Exhibits Drawn From Wide Area. Growing Importance of Spring Art Exhibition More Generally Recognized."  Gazette (Montreal)  .  p.5.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Quelques heros de Louis Hemon en sculpture. Maria Chapdelaine, son père et sa mère figurent au Salon des Artistes. Oeuvres de Suzor Cote."  La Presse (Montreal)  .  p.12.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Canadian School is Well Represented at the Art Exhibition."  Montreal Herald  .  p.10.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "High Standard Set by R.C.A. Pictures. Forty-Fourth Exhibition Opened With Private View Last Night."  Gazette (Montreal)  .  p.9.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Montreal Artists Well Represented. High Standard Set at Spring Exhibition of Art Association."  Gazette (Montreal)  .  p.6.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Meritorious Work at Spring Exhibit. Mural Paintings in R.C.A. Competition Part of Entries at Art Gallery."  Gazette (Montreal)  .  p.15.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) S. Morgan-Powell.  "Spring Exhibition."  Montreal Star  .  p.6.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Art Association's Spring Exhibition."  Gazette (Montreal)  .  p.6.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Fine Work Marks R.C.A. Exhibition. New Schools Offer Contrast to Solidly-Based Qualities of Older and Established Painters."  Gazette (Montreal)  .  p.10.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Private View Held at Art Exhibition. Committee of Selection Had to Perform Obviously Difficult Task. Many Omissions Noted."  Gazette (Montreal)  .  p.6.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "R.C.A. Exhibition Nearing Jubilee. Much Meritorious Work Shown, but Younger Painters Tend to Shallowness and Emptiness."  Gazette (Montreal)  .  p.7.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, ) S. Morgan-Powell.  "Forty-Ninth Annual R.C.A. Exhibition at Art Galleries Here."  Montreal Star  .  p.8.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, ) Albert Laberge.  "Appréciation de quelques toiles du Salon des artistes Canadiens."  La Presse (Montreal)  .  p.52.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Spring Exhibition at Art Galleries. Younger Men and Women Encouraged by Jury of Selection."  Gazette (Montreal)  .  p.8.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Toronto, ) Jeanne Adeney.  "Art Notes."  Canadian Bookman  .  p.25.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Spring Exhibition at Art Galleries. Jury Selection Sympathetic to Sincere and Normal Work - Promise Shown by New Exhibitors."  Gazette (Montreal)  .  p.12.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "R.C.A. Show Opened with Private View. Fifty-first Annual Exhibition Housed in Art Association Galleries."  Gazette (Montreal)  .  p.18.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Le salon d'automne."  Revue Populaire  .  23.1: PP.7-10.   Full-text pdf
Ontario Society of Artists Annual Exhibition: (Toronto, ) Constance C. Mackay.  "O.S.A. Exhibit."  Toronto Saturday Night  .  p.39.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Art Association Has Forty-Ninth Annual Spring Exhibition."  Montreal Star  .  p.7.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Art Association's Spring Exhibition Is 49th of Series. Some Five Hundred Works Greet Invited Guests at Private View."  Gazette (Montreal)  .  p.6.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Spring Exhibition of Art Association Was Opened on Thursday."  Montreal Star  .  p.19.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "50th Spring Show Opened to Public. Jury Shows Open Mind. From Over 1,000 Entries, 543 Works Representative of Various Schools Have Been Selected."  Gazette (Montreal)  .  p.6.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Nearly 500 Works at Spring Exhibit. Variety in Show at Galleries of Art Association of Montreal. 1,080 Items Submitted. Judges Reveal Open Minds and 52nd Annual Contains Much to Meet Differing Tastes."  Gazette (Montreal)  .  p.3.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Spring Exhibition of Art Association Opened on Thursday."  Montreal Star  .  p.17.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Spring Exhibition on Generous Scale. Show at Art Gallery Opened Last Night Contains 621 Items."  Gazette (Montreal)  .  p.2.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Annual Spring Exhibition at Art Association."  Montreal Star  .  p.8.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Works in Art Exhibition Are of Unusual Merit. New Policy of Showing More Carefully Selected Pieces Followed by Association."  Montreal Star  .  p.17.   Full-text pdf

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