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KILLINS, Ada Gladys
- Born
- Caistor Township, Ontario, 1901
- Died
- Dunchurch, Ontario, 1963
- Biography synopsis
- In the early 1920s Killins attended teacher's college, and in 1924 she began teaching art classes at the Memorial School in Niagara Falls. She later studied painting privately with Franz Johnston, and during the summers from 1935 to 1938 Killins studied under Carl Schaefer at Geneva Park, Lake Couchiching. As a member of the Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour, Killins exhibited with them regularly throughout her career. Her work was also shown at the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto in 1939. Fifteen of her works were included in the exhibition “Four Canadian Painters” in 1942; the works of F.H. Brigden, W.J. Phillips and Thoreau MacDonald were also shown. Killins worked in watercolour, and often depicted the land and community around her; her works are held in many public and private collections across the country.
- Media used
- Watercolour
- Memberships
- Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour, 1939
- File & Archive locations
- University of British Columbia - Fine Arts Library
- London Public Library, ON
- National Gallery of Canada, ON - Library and Archives
- Art Gallery of Ontario - Edward P. Taylor Research Library and Archives
- Canadian Women Artists History Initiative Documentation Centre, QC
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
Writings about- "Gallery Showing Watercolors By Glen Cross Artist." The Orangeville Banner [Ontario] 18 Feb. 1954
- "Water Colors Are Shown At Public Library." The Evening Review [Niagara Falls] July 19, 1948
- Cook, Sharon Anne, et al., eds. Framing Our Past: Canadian Women's History in the 20th Century. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001
- 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.
- Prakash, A. K. Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art Buffalo, New York: Firefly Books, 2008
