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FREIMAN, Lillian
- Naissance
- Guelph, Ontario, 1908
- Décès
- New York, United States, 1986
- Notice biographique
- Freiman was born in Guelph, Ontario in 1908. Her family moved to Montreal, where she studied at the Art Association of Montreal and at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Montreal under Edmond Dyonnet, Emmanuel Fougerat and Robert Mahias. She attended the Art Students League in New York and then moved to Paris for thirteen years. The work of Degas and Toulouse-Lautrec had a serious influence on Freiman’s work. In 1932, she traveled to Canada and held solo shows at the Jacoby Gallery (Montreal) and at Wilson & Co., Ottawa. The next year she visited Canada and held a solo show at the Richard Gallery, Toronto. She went back to Paris and stayed until 1938, when the Second World War’s crisis forced her to leave France. She passed a brief time in Toronto and then settled in New York. She experimented with different techniques using pastel, crayon, watercolour on paper, as well as oil on canvas and on wood. She did studies of heads (mostly of women) and bird cages that were part of her collection. She won four prizes and a bursary at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Montreal and is represented in numerous collections, including the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario; the Art Gallery of Cobourg, the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria; McMaster University, Hamilton; the Department of External Affairs, Ottawa; among others. At the age of 78 years she died in New York.
- Médias
- Painting
- Etudes
- Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Montreal, 1923 - 1924 (Sous la direction de Edmond Dyonnet, Emmanuel Fougerat & Robert Mahias)
- Lieux de conservation des dossiers et archives
- Art Gallery of Ontario - Edward P. Taylor Research Library and Archives
- Artexte Information Centre, QC - Documentation Centre
- Calgary Public Library, AB - Arts Department
- Canadian Women Artists History Initiative Documentation Centre, QC
- Hamilton Public Library, ON - Local History and Archives Department
- Library and Archives Canada / Bibliothèque et Archives Canada, ON
- Montreal Museum of Fine Arts / Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, QC
- Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, QC - Media Centre
- National Gallery of Canada, ON - Library and Archives
- Vancouver Art Gallery, BC - Library
- Winnipeg Art Gallery, MA - Clara Lander Library
- London Public Library, ON
- Ottawa Jewish Archives, ON
- Canadian Jewish Congress Charities Committee National Archives, QC
- University of Guelph, ON - Archival & Special Collections
- Baltimore Museum of Art, MD - Archives and Manuscripts Collections
- Center for Jewish History, NY
- Frick Art Reference Library, NY
- BIBLIOGRAPHIE
Documents sur l'artiste- "Artist Lillian Freiman dead at 82. Work hangs in National Gallery." Star (Toronto) 9 Sept. 1986.
- "Brillante fête artistique à l'école des beaux-arts." Le Canada (Montreal) 24 May 1924: 10.
- "Canadian Art to Be Shown At US Gallery." Standard (Montreal) 28 Oct. 1950.
- "Canadian-born painter was influenced by Degas." The Globe and Mail (Toronto) 10 Sept. 1986.
- "L'école des Beaux-Arts." Le Canada (Montreal) 25 May 1924.
- "Lillian Freiman." Montreal Star 26 Apr. 1932.
- "Notes on Events in Art World." Toronto Star 27 Mar. 1932.
- "Open Exhibition at Arts School." Gazette (Montreal) 24 May 1924.
- "School of Fine Art is Opened." Montreal Daily Star 24 May 1924.
- Axford, Phyllis. "Paris Louvre Hails Canadian Artist." Toronto Star Weekly 20 Jun. 1946.
- Boutilier, Alicia Anna, et al. Inspirational : The Collection of H.S. Southam Hamilton, Ontario: Art Gallery of Hamilton, 2009.
- Buchanan, Donald W. The Growth of Canadian Painting. Toronto: Collins, 1950.
- Buchanan, Donald W. "Painter of Sensitive Vision." Canadian Art 7.3 (Spring 1950): 99-104.
- Cotret, J. René de. "Aux beaux-arts: la premiére exposition des travaux de vacances des élèves est très interessante." Le Canada (Montreal) 11 Nov. 1924.
- Frankfurter, Dr. Alfred M. "Drawings in Color by Lilian Freiman." Art News 26 Feb. 1938.
- Held, Julius S. Exhibition: Oils and Pastels by Lillian Freiman. 1946.
- Heller, Jules and Nancy. North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century New York: Garland, 1995.
- London Public Library and Art Museum. Master Canadian Painters and Sculptors London, Ontario: 1963.
- MacDonald, C.G. "Gallery Notes." Herald (Montreal) 19 Apr. 1952.
- 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.
- Martyn, Howe. "Sketches From Paris." Canadian Forum 14.165 (Jun. 1934): 353.
- McCarthy, Pearl. "4,000 Years of Jewish Art Show Highlight." Globe and Mail (Toronto) 23 Oct. 1950.
- McInnes, G. Campbell. Canadian Art. Toronto: MacMillan, 1950.
- McInnes, G. Campbell. “World of Art.” Saturday Night (18 Jan. 1936): 4.
- Morgan-Powell, S. "A Final Glance Around the Art Exhibition Here." Star (Montreal) 12 Apr. 1922.
- Nasby, Judith M. Lillian Freiman, Paintings & Drawings. Kingston: University of Gluelph/Agnes Etherington Art Centre, 1978.
- National Gallery of Canada. Canadian Water Colours Drawings & Prints. Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1966.
- Pope, Leroy. "Success Came Easily to Canadian Artist." Montreal Star 6 Aug. 1959.
- Reference Division, McPherson Library, compilers. Creative Canada: A Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Creative and Performing Arts Toronto: University of Toronto Press, University of Victoria, 1971.
- Walker, Kathleen. "The Almost Neglected Art of Lillian Freiman.” Ottawa Citizen 31 Aug. 1974.
Documents rédigés par l'artiste- Freiman, Lillian. "Letter to the Editor." Canadian Forum 14.166 (Jul. 1934): 411.
Texte intégral de compte rendu (pdf).- Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, mars 21, 1922) "Exhibits Drawn From Wide Area. Growing Importance of Spring Art Exhibition More Generally Recognized." Gazette (Montreal) mars 21, 1922. p.5. Comptes rendus intégraux
- Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, mars 21, 1922) S. Morgan-Powell. "A Final Glance Around the Art Exhibition Here. II." Montreal Daily Star avril 12, 1922. p.6. Comptes rendus intégraux
