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DAY, Katherine
- Born
- Orillia, Ontario, 1889
- Died
- Orillia, Ontario, 1976
- Biography synopsis
- A painter and printmaker, Katherine Day earned a B.A. from Queen's University (1912) whereupon she went into social service work. Day volunteered as a nursing assistant in England during and after World War I (1916-1920). After her return, she studied painting at the Winnipeg School of Art under Franz Johnston (1922-1923) and, six years later, left for Toronto to attend the Ontario College of Art (1929-1930). Shortly after, her studies took her to Europe, where she enrolled at London's Central School of Arts and Crafts and studied in Paris under Nicolas Eckman and Henri Jannot (c.1933-1936). Back in Canada, she became a member of both the Canadian Society of Graphic Artists (1935-1954), and the Canadian Society of Painters, Etchers, and Engravers (1956-1964), frequently including her works in the exhibitions organized by these associations. Her woodcut on Japan paper entitled "Sap's Running" is in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada.
- Media used
- Painting
- Printmaking
- Education
- Winnipeg School of Art, 1922 - 1923 (under Franz Johnston)
- Ontario College of Art & Design (formerly Ontario School of Art), 1929 - 1930
- Central School of Art and Design, London
- Private study, 1933 - 1936 (under Nicolas Eckman and Henri Jannot (Paris, France))
- Memberships
- Canadian Society of Graphic Art, 1935
- Canadian Society of Painters, Etchers and Engravers, 1956
- File & Archive locations
- Montreal Museum of Fine Arts / Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, QC
- National Gallery of Canada, ON - Library and Archives
- Toronto Reference Library, ON
- Canadian Women Artists History Initiative Documentation Centre, QC
- Library and Archives Canada / Bibliothèque et Archives Canada, ON
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
Writings about- "Exhibitions in New York." Parnassus New York: College Art Association, 11.8 (Dec. 1939): 47
- See page 108 Queen's Review 5.3 (31Dec. 1931)
- Hill, C.C. and P.B. Landry, eds. National Gallery Catalogue, Canadian Art. Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1988
- 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
- National Gallery of Canada. National Gallery of Canada Catalogue of Canadian Art Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1988
Writings by- Day, Katherine. “The Letters of Captain Steele’s Daughters,” Unpublished paper delivered to the Orillia Historical Society 19 March 1953
