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MANAREY, Thelma Alberta
- Born
- Edmonton, Alberta, 1913
- Died
- Edmonton, Alberta, 1984
- Biography synopsis
- Manarey initially took private lessons in water-colour painting with Florence Mortimer and later studied portrait painting and printmaking with Henry G. Glyde in Calgary. She also attended courses at the Universities of Alberta and Washington extension programs. In the mid-1950s Manarey turned to abstract painting after attending summer sessions at the Banff School of Fine Arts where she studied with surrealist Charles Stegeman, as well as at Emma Lake working with artists including Kenneth Noland. From 1960 to 1972 Manarey's work focused on snow which she said served as a "natural" inspiration to her; she would apply many layers of white using positive and negative spaces. Manarey's print work, like her painting, dealt with organic forms, including serigraphs and lithographs. In 1968 she turned exclusively to etching. The works produced during this period were shown in a solo exhibition at the Edmonton Art Gallery as well as in St. John's, Newfoundland. Her works are held in the collections of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts and Art Gallery of Alberta (Edmonton), Nickle Art Museum (Calgary) and the University of Alberta Art Collection.
- Media used
- Acrylics
- Oil painting
- Painting
- Printmaking
- Watercolour
- Education
- Banff School of Fine Arts
- Emma Lake - University of Saskatchewan Art School
- Calgary Institute of Technology and Art
- Memberships
- Alberta Society of Artists
- File & Archive locations
- Alberta Culture and Community Spirit - Arts Branch
- Canadian Women Artists History Initiative Documentation Centre, QC
- Art Gallery of Alberta
- Art Gallery of Ontario - Edward P. Taylor Research Library and Archives
- Calgary Public Library, AB - Arts Department
- Edmonton Art Gallery, AB - Library
- Montreal Museum of Fine Arts / Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, QC
- Vancouver Art Gallery, BC - Library
- University of British Columbia - Fine Arts Library
- University of Calgary Library, AB
- Winnipeg Art Gallery, MA - Clara Lander Library
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
Writings about- "farewell to Giant Sized Canvases." Edmonton Journal 3 Mar. 1972: 53
- Alberta Society of Artists, Edmonton Art Gallery. Alberta Society of Artists. Edmonton Art Gallery, 1975
- Baker, Suzanne Devonshire. Artists of Alberta. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 1980
- Cochran, Bente Roed. Printmaking in Alberta 1945-1985 Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 1989
- Cochran, Bente Roed. "Paper the only thing these Works share." Edmonton Journal 17 Mar. 1979
- Cochran, Bente Roed. "The Alberta Visual Arts Scene." Visual Arts Newsletter 3.1 (Winter 1981): 3-15
- Griwkowsky, Fish. "Edmonton Art Club celebrates 100 Years at AGA, which it helped create." Edmonton Journal 11 Nov. 2021
http://edmontonjournal.com/entertainment/local-arts/edmonton-art-club-celebrates-100-years-at-aga-which-it-helped-create - LaViolette, Mary-Beth. Alberta Mistresses of the Modern, 1935-1975. Edmonton: Art Gallery of Alberta, 2012
- Reichwein, P. and K. Wall. Uplift: Visual Culture at the Banff School of Fine Arts Banff: Banff School of Fine Arts, 2020
- Richards, Jean. "Impressions of Exotic Journeys." Edmonton Journal 21 Sept. 1978
- Simpson, J. E.. "Thelma Manarey: from one Extreme to the Other." The Edmonton Journal 18 Nov. 1974: 73.
- Simpson, Jim. "Variety in Form highlights Exhibition: Exhibition by Women Artists." Edmonton Journal 17 Jan. 1979
- Townshend, Nancy. A History of Art in Alberta, 1905-1970 Calgary, Alberta: Bayeux, 2005
- Waddell, Shawn. "130 honoured at City Awards Night." Edmonton Journal 19 Apr. 1973
- Wilkin, Karen. Thelma Manarey: Recent Paintings : The Edmonton Art Gallery, March 2-28, 1972 Edmonton: Edmonton Art Gallery, 1972
- Zimon, Kathy E. Alberta Society of Artists: The First Seventy Years Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2000
