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HEMMING, Edith Clara Sophia

Born
Kimbolton, Cambridgeshire, England, 1849
Died
Dollar, Scotland, 1931
Biography synopsis
Hemming moved to Canada in 1852 when her father Henry Hemming was employed as financial controller for the construction of the Victoria Bridge in Montreal. While in Canada Hemming lived in various cities in Ontario and Quebec. In 1869 she moved to Quebec City where she worked for the Livernois photographic studio where she hand-painted photographs with watercolours for twenty-five years. Examples of these can be found in the Livernois Collection at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec. Hemming was also an accomplished miniaturist and also painted portraits when living in Toronto beginning in 1893. In Canada she exhibited with the Ontario Society of Artists, the Royal Canadian Academy and the Woman's Art Association of Canada. After moving back to Scotland around 1904 her works were exhibited with the Royal Academy of Arts (1904, 1910), the Royal Scottish Academy (1907-1909), and the Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, among others.
Media used
Miniatures
Watercolour
File & Archive locations
Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec - Bibliothèque
National Gallery of Canada, ON - Library and Archives
Canadian Women Artists History Initiative Documentation Centre, QC
McCord Museum Archives, QC
Library and Archives Canada / Bibliothèque et Archives Canada, ON
BIBLIOGRAPHY

Writings about
"Art and Artists." Saturday Night 6.21 (22 Apr. 1893): 14
"Art and Artists." Saturday Night 6.26 (20 May 1893): 14
"Art Notes." Saturday Night 7.20 (7 Apr. 1894): 6
"Art Notes." Saturday Night 7.21 (14 Apr. 1894): 6
"Art Notes." Saturday Night 9.7 (4 Jan. 1896): 9
"Art Notes." Saturday Night 9.3 (7 Dec. 1895): 9
"Medical Items." The Canadian Practitioner 19.4 (Apr. 1894): 318
"Weekly Retrospective." The Catholic Register 2.14 (Apr. 1894): 10
American Federation of the Arts. American Art Annual, 1933. Washington, DC and New York: American Federation of the Arts, 1933
Baillargeon, Christiane. "Femmes artistes connaitre l'art autre." Vie des Arts 215 (Summer 2009): 40-43
http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/52403ac
Béland, Mario. "Edith Hemming, au service des Livernois." Cap-aux-Diamants : La revue d'histoire du Québec 96 (2009): 51
http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/6844ac
Doyle, Lynn C. "Art Notes." Saturday Night 9.14 (22 Feb. 1896): 9
Doyle, Lynn C. "Art." Saturday Night 9.21(11 Apr. 1896): 9
Doyle, Lynn C.. "Art Notes." Saturday Night 9.2 (8 Feb. 1896): 9
Doyle, Lynn C.. "Art." Saturday Night 9.34 (11 Jul. 1896): 9
Doyle, Lynn C.. "Art." Saturday Night 9.43 (12 Sept. 1896): 9
Doyle, Lynn C.. "Art." Saturday Night 10.5 (19 Dec. 1896): 9
Foskett, Daphne. Miniatures: Dictionary and Guide. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Antique Collectors' Club, 1987
Graves, Algernon. The Royal Academy of Arts: A Complete Dictionary of Contributors and Their Works from its Foundations in 1769 to 1904. London: Henry Graves & Co. and George Bell & Sons, 1905
Harper, J. Russell. Early Painters and Engravers in Canada Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1970
Johnson, Jane and A. Greutzer. Dictionary of British Artists, 1880-1940. Woodbridge: Antique Collectors' Club, 1976
McMann, Evelyn de Rostaing. Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Formerly Art Association of Montreal: Spring Exhibitions, 1880-1970. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1988
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
Petteys, Chris, et al. Dictionary of Women Artists: An International Dictionary of Women Artists Born Before 1900. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1985
Trepanier, Esther and Landry, Pierre. Femmes artistes du XXe siecle au Quebec: Oeuvres du Musee national des beaux-arts du Quebec. Quebec, Quebec: Musee national des beaux-arts du Quebec, 2010.

Full text pdfs of exhibition reviews
Women's Art Association of Canada (Tor) - First Sketch Club Exhibition: (89 Canada Life Building, ) "Woman's Art Club. The Annual Exhibition now in Progress in the Canada Life Building-Some of the Paintings."  Globe and Mail (Toronto)  .  p.6.   Full-text pdf
Women's Art Association of Canada (Tor) - Sixth Annual Spring Exhibition: (89 Canada Life Building, ) "Art Notes"  Toronto Saturday Night  .  p.6.   Full-text pdf
Women's Art Association of Canada (Tor) - Sixth Annual Spring Exhibition: (89 Canada Life Building, ) "The Woman's Art Association"  The Week (Toronto)  .  p.472.   Full-text pdf
Women's Art Association of Canada (Ham) - First Exhibition: (Y.M.C.A., ) "Art Notes"  Toronto Saturday Night  .  p.9.   Full-text pdf
Women's Art Association of Canada (Tor) - 8th Annual Spring Exhibition: (Robert's Art Galleries, ) "Women And Art. Annual Exhibition of the Woman's Art Association. Purely Canadian Exhibits. Great Discretion Exercised in the Selection of Paintings. Lieutenant-Governor Kirkpatrick and Party Present at the Opening-The Exhibit Open Till the 17."  Globe and Mail  .  p.8.   Full-text pdf
Women's Art Association of Canada (Tor) - 8th Annual Spring Exhibition: (Robert's Art Galleries, ) "ART"  Toronto Saturday Night  .  p.9.   Full-text pdf
Women's Art Association of Canada (Tor) - 9th Annual Spring Exhibition: (Robert's Art Galleries, ) "Woman's Art Association. Annual Exhibition of Paintings by Members of the Association-Other Cities Represented."  Globe and Mail (Toronto)  .  p.6.   Full-text pdf
Women's Art Association of Canada (Tor) - Annual Sketch Exhibition: (89 Canada Life Building, ) "Studio and Gallery"  Toronto Saturday Night  .  p.15.   Full-text pdf
Women's Art Association of Canada (Tor) - Tenth Annual Spring Exhibition: (Robert's Art Galleries, ) "Art and Artists. Tenth Annual Exhibition of the W.A.A. Water Colors the Feature. Some Noted Canvases by Distinguished Artists. Contributions from Montreal, Hamilton, Brockville and Kingston - Toronto Well Represented - The Trend of Art."  Globe and Mail (Toronto)  .  p.5.   Full-text pdf
Ontario Society of Artists Annual Exhibition: (Toronto, ) Jean Grant.  "Studio and Gallery"  Toronto Saturday Night  .  p.9.   Full-text pdf
Ontario Society of Artists Annual Exhibition: (Toronto, ) Lynn C. Doyle.  "Exhibition of the Ontario Society of Artists. Second Notice."  Globe (Toronto)  .  p.8.   Full-text pdf
Ontario Society of Artists Annual Exhibition: (Toronto, ) Lynn C. Doyle.  "Ontario Society of Artists."  Globe (Toronto)  .  p.28.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Artists and Friends Thronged Gallery. Royal Canadian Academy's Exhibition a Pronounced Success. Many Attended Private View. An Improvement This Year in Number and Quality of Works Shown."  Montreal Star  .  p.10.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Annual Exhibition of the Royal Canadian Academy."  Montreal Daily Herald  .  p.2.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "The Spring Exhibition. A Good Average Showing of Pictures by Canadian Artists."  Daily Witness (Montreal)  .  p.6.   Full-text pdf
Ontario Society of Artists Annual Exhibition: (Toronto, ) Augustus Bridle.  "O.S.A's Exhibition Blazes High Color. Landscapes, Portraits, Figures, But No Action Pictures in Show."  Toronto Star  .  p.18.   Full-text pdf

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