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CUMMINS, Jane Catherine
- Born
- Amherst Island, Ontario, ca 1841
- Died
- Munich, Germany, 1893
- Biography synopsis
- Jane Catherine Cummins was born on Amherst Island near Kingston, Ontario. She came from an Irish family and is thought to be the daughter of Captain John Swete Cummins and Catherine Smith who married in 1841 and received land on the island as part of their marriage settlement. From 1886 to 1891 she lived in Montreal where she studied under Otto Reinhold Jacobi, member of the Ontario Society of Artists and president of the Royal Academy of Arts from 1890-1893. A painter in oils and watercolours, Cummins’ work was shown in 1886 at the Dominion Exhibition, Sherbrooke. Her work entitled "Children at Play" was shown at the Montreal Art Association in 1891. From 1891 until her death in 1893, Cummins traveled to Paris, Rome, London and Munich. Her work entitled "Church of the Gesuiti, Venice," painted in 1891, is in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada.
- Media used
- Oil painting
- Painting
- Watercolour
- File & Archive locations
- Montreal Museum of Fine Arts / Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, QC
- National Gallery of Canada, ON - Library and Archives
- Canadian Women Artists History Initiative Documentation Centre, QC
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
Writings about- Comeau, André. Artistes Plasticiens. Montreal: Bellarmin, 1983
- Harper, J. Russell. Early Painters and Engravers in Canada Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1970
- Hill, C.C. and P.B. Landry, eds. National Gallery Catalogue, Canadian Art. Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1988
- Hubbard, R. H. National Gallery of Canada, Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture, Volume 3. Ottawa: Published for the Trustees by University of Toronto Press, 1960
- MacDonald, Colin S. The Dictionary of Canadian Artists. (Volumes 1-8 by Colin S. MacDonald, and volume 9 by Anne Newlands and Judith Parker) Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009.
- MacTavish, Newton. The Fine Arts in Canada. Toronto: Macmillan, 1925
- McKendry, Blake. A to Z of Canadian Art: Artists and Art Terms. Kingston: B. McKendry, 1997
- McMann, Evelyn de Rostaing. Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Formerly Art Association of Montreal: Spring Exhibitions, 1880-1970. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1988
- National Gallery of Canada. Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture: Canadian School. Ottawa: Trustees of the National Gallery of Canada, 1957
- Ontario Provincial Library Service. Ontario Library Review. Toronto: Provincial Library Service, 1940
- Petteys, Chris, et al. Dictionary of Women Artists: An International Dictionary of Women Artists Born Before 1900. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1985
- Wallace, W. Stewart. The Encyclopedia of Canada. Toronto: University Associates of Canada, 1935
