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DUFF, Ann MacIntosh
- Born
- Toronto, Ontario, 1925
- Died
- Toronto, Ontario, 2022
- Biography synopsis
- Duff was a landscape and still life painter who worked in watercolour. painter who also painted everyday moments of her life from the lakeshore cottage on Georgian Bay as well as her Toronto studio. She studied with Lismer as a child at the Art Gallery of Toronto and later at the Women's Art Association at the same time also the Queen's University Art program in 1944 with Andre Bieler. From the fall 1944 to 1946 she studied at Central Technical School in Toronto where she was influenced by Doris McCarthy. She would add monotype and wood block printing to her repertoire. An active member of the watercolour society, she was engaged in organizing an exhibition exchange with the Japanese Watercolour Society. The McMichael Gallery acquired 200 works by Duff in 2022 and held an exhibition in 2023. This exhibition, which includes a carefully curated selection of these works, represents a small survey of Duff’s career. Her work is held in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada[1] and the Royal Collection, as part of the Royal Collection Project. In 1959, she began working with Douglas Duncan at the Picture Loan Society, one of the most influential galleries in Canada In 1977, she was awarded the Queen`s Jubilee Medal; in 1984, she received an Honorary Award from the Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour. In 2007, the Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery held a retrospective of MacIntosh Duff’s work.
- Media used
- Painting
- Printmaking
- Watercolour
- Education
- Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario
- Central Technical School, Toronto
- Art Gallery of Toronto
- Memberships
- Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour, 1951
- Ontario Society of Artists, 1961
- Canadian Society of Graphic Art, elected in 1963
- Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, 1973
- File & Archive locations
- Art Gallery of Ontario - Edward P. Taylor Research Library and Archives
- Edmonton Art Gallery, AB - Library
- Montreal Museum of Fine Arts / Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, QC
- National Gallery of Canada, ON - Library and Archives
- Toronto Reference Library, ON
- Vancouver Art Gallery, BC - Library
- University of British Columbia - Fine Arts Library
- Winnipeg Art Gallery, MA - Clara Lander Library
- Canadian Women Artists History Initiative Documentation Centre, QC
- University of Calgary Library, AB
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
Writings about- Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour. 53rd Annual Exhibition: New Brunswick Museum Saint John N..B.: New Brunswick Museum, 1978
- Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour. Annual Exhibition (48 Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour.) St. John's Newfoundland: Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1973
- Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour.. 50th Annual Exhibition. Society 1975. London, Ontario: The Society, 1975
- Duff Ann MacIntosh et al.. Ann Macintosh Duff: To Love and to Cherish. Owen Sound: Tom Thomson Art Gallery, 2008
- Hedley, R.. "Exhibit shows Development of Watercolor Painting." Edmonton Journal 27 Oct 1954: 27
- Hedley, R.. "Exhibit shows Development of Watercolor Painting." Edmonton Journal 27 Oct 1954: 27
- Horne, Alan. "The Prints of Ann MacIntosh Duff." DA: A Journal of the Printing Arts 41 (1997): 41
- Kear, Andrew. "Solitudes Paradox: An Introduction to the Life and Work of Ann MacIntosh Duff." Metivier Toronto: Metivier Art Gallery, ?
http://website-metiviergallery.artlogic.net/usr/library/documents/main/kear_duff.pdf - Kear, Andrew. "Solitudes Paradox: An Introduction to the Life and Work of Ann MacIntosh Duff." Metivier Toronto: Metivier Art Gallery, ?
http://website-metiviergallery.artlogic.net/usr/library/documents/main/kear_duff.pdf - 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.
- Outram Richard et al.. Long Weekend at the Lake: For Ann Macintosh Duff. Toronto, Ontario: Gauntlet Press, 1996
- Reid Stuart et al.. Night in a Northern Forest: The Watercolours of Ann Macintosh Duff. Owen Sound, Ontario: Tom Thomson Art Gallery, 2007
- Sisler Rebecca. Aquarelle! : A History of the Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour 1925-1985. The Society? 1986. Toronto, Ontario: Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour, 1986
- Tippett, Maria. By A Lady: Celebrating Three Centuries of Art by Canadian Women. Toronto and London: Viking, 1992
- Wolff, Hennie. Index of Ontario Artists. Toronto: Visual Arts of Ontario, Ontario Association of Art Galleries, 1978
