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SAVAGE, Anne

Born
Montreal, Quebec, 1896
Died
Montreal, Quebec, 1971
Biography synopsis
A founding member of the Beaver Hall Group, Anne "Annie" Douglas Savage often painted the Quebec landscape. Although influenced by the Group of Seven's A.Y. Jackson, with whom she was close friends, Savage's works reflect a land inhabited by a harmonious human presence, rather than a deserted wilderness. In her later years, she began to venture towards abstraction, simplifying form and employing patches of colour. Member of a large and closely-knit family, Savage grew up in then-rural Dorval, Quebec, and spent her summers in the Laurentians, which instilled in her a love of the country. After studying at the Art Association of Montreal and the Minneapolis School of Art, Savage opted for a teaching career rather than becoming a professional artist in order to fulfill her familial responsibilities following the 1916 death of her twin brother, Donaldson, in action. Despite these overtones of obligation, however, Savage was admired for her dedication and ability to inspire her students at Baron Byng High School in Montreal, where she taught from 1922-1947. Subsequently, Savage became supervisor of art for the Protestant School Board of Greater Montreal (1947-52) and also organized children's art classes on Saturday mornings at the Art Association of Montreal. An advocate for the importance of art education, Savage was instrumental in helping to found the High School Art Teachers' Association, The Child Art Council, and the Quebec Society for Education Through Art. She returned to teaching in 1954 when invited to become an instructor at McGill University, where she taught until 1959. In 1927, she was invited by ethnologist Marius Barbeau to join sculptor Florence Wyle on a trip to Skeena River, British Columbia to record the totem poles of the Native people of the Northwest coast. The works produced were displayed as part of the 1927 exhibition "Canadian West Coast Art, Native and Modern" at the National Gallery.
Media used
Painting
Education
Art Association of Montreal, 1914 - 1915 (under William Brymner)
Minneapolis School of Art
Ontario College of Art & Design (formerly Ontario School of Art) (under Arthur Lismer)
Memberships
Beaver Hall Group, 1921
Canadian Group of Painters, 1933
File & Archive locations
Hamilton Public Library, ON - Local History and Archives Department
Art Gallery of Ontario - Edward P. Taylor Research Library and Archives
Edmonton Art Gallery, AB - Library
London Public Library, ON
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts / Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, QC
Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, QC - Media Centre
Artexte Information Centre, QC - Documentation Centre
National Gallery of Canada, ON - Library and Archives
Toronto Reference Library, ON
University of British Columbia - Fine Arts Library
University of Calgary Library, AB
Vancouver Art Gallery, BC - Library
Winnipeg Art Gallery, MA - Clara Lander Library
Canadian Women Artists History Initiative Documentation Centre, QC
Library and Archives Canada / Bibliothèque et Archives Canada, ON
Concordia University Archives, QC
Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery, QC
BIBLIOGRAPHY

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Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "No Freak Pictures at Spring Show. Big Exhibition at Art Gallery but Works Small in Size. An Added Attraction: French War Posters, Medals and Souvenirs on View to Aid Red Cross Work."  Gazette (Montreal)  .  p.13.   Full-text pdf
The Joint Annual Exhibition of the RCA and the OSA: (Toronto; Montreal (Fall), ) "Spring Exhibit at Art Gallery. Returned Soldier Exhibits Two Works Sketched at the Front. Four Artists Overseas. Late Exhibition of R.C.A. Held Works that Usually Came to Montreal - Good Watercolors."  Gazette (Montreal)  .  p.7.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Spring Exhibition at Art Gallery. Returned Soldier Exhibits Two Works Sketched at the Front."  Gazette (Montreal)  .  p.5.   Full-text pdf
The Joint Annual Exhibition of the RCA and the OSA: (Toronto; Montreal (Fall), ) "War-time Note in Academy Pictures. Camouflaged Shipping the Subject of Some Historically Interesting Works. Standard Maintained. Painters Producing Fewer Works Evidenced by Showing Pictures Exhibited Last Spring in Toronto."  Gazette (Montreal)  .  p.11.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Artist's Efforts Reach High Level."  Gazette (Montreal)  .  p.6.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Art of Canadians Well Represented."  Gazette (Montreal)  .  p.9.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Le salon du printemps."  Le Devoir (Montreal)  .  p.8.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Exposition de peintures par nos artistes. Quantité de toiles remarquables et fort intéressantes exposées au salon."  La Presse (Montreal)  .  p.7.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Fewer Paintings, Higher Standards. Thirty-Eighth Annual Exhibition of Art Association of Montreal. Private View Last Night."  Gazette (Montreal)  .  p.11.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Exhibits Drawn From Wide Area. Growing Importance of Spring Art Exhibition More Generally Recognized."  Gazette (Montreal)  .  p.5.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Canadian School is Well Represented at the Art Exhibition."  Montreal Herald  .  p.10.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) S. Morgan-Powell.  "A Final Glance Around the Art Exhibition Here. II."  Montreal Daily Star  .  p.6.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "High Standard Set by R.C.A. Pictures. Forty-Fourth Exhibition Opened With Private View Last Night."  Gazette (Montreal)  .  p.9.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Montreal Artists Well Represented. High Standard Set at Spring Exhibition of Art Association."  Gazette (Montreal)  .  p.6.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) Albert Laberge.  "Causerie en marge du salon du printemps. Peintres qui font de la sculpture et sculpteurs qui font des tableaux. Les Paysagistes."  La Presse  .  p.10.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Toronto, ) "Mural Decorations Feature Art Exhibit."  Toronto Star  .  p.30.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Toronto, ) "Two Montrealers Elected by R.C.A.. D.H. MacFarlane and Lilias T. Newton, Associates of Royal Canadian Academy. Hamilton Man Honored. J.S. Gordon Becomes A.R.C.A. - Awards in Mural Painting Competition - R.C.A. Officers are Re-elected"  Gazette (Montreal)  .  p.9.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Toronto, ) Hector Charlesworth.  "Royal Canadian Academy. Probably the Finest Display in its History With Montreal Much to the Fore."  Toronto Saturday Night  .  p.5.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Toronto, ) "Contrasted Styles in Canadian Art."  Mail and Empire (Toronto)  .  p.5.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Meritorious Work at Spring Exhibit. Mural Paintings in R.C.A. Competition Part of Entries at Art Gallery."  Gazette (Montreal)  .  p.15.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Art Association's Spring Exhibition."  Gazette (Montreal)  .  p.6.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Fine Work Marks R.C.A. Exhibition. New Schools Offer Contrast to Solidly-Based Qualities of Older and Established Painters."  Gazette (Montreal)  .  p.10.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Toiles remarquables par les peintres de Toronto."  La Presse (Montreal)  .  p.5.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Private View Held at Art Exhibition. Committee of Selection Had to Perform Obviously Difficult Task. Many Omissions Noted."  Gazette (Montreal)  .  p.6.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) S. Morgan-Powell.  "Spring Exhibition at Art Galleries Is an Indifferent Show."  Montreal Star  .  p.6.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) Albert Laberge.  "Des oeuvres remarquables au Salon de nos peintres."  La Presse (Montreal)  .  p.26.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, ) S. Morgan-Powell.  "Forty-Ninth Annual R.C.A. Exhibition at Art Galleries Here."  Montreal Star  .  p.8.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "R.C.A. Exhibition Nearing Jubilee. Much Meritorious Work Shown, but Younger Painters Tend to Shallowness and Emptiness."  Gazette (Montreal)  .  p.7.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, ) Albert Laberge.  "Appréciation de quelques toiles du Salon des artistes Canadiens."  La Presse (Montreal)  .  p.52.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Spring Exhibition at Art Galleries. Jury Selection Sympathetic to Sincere and Normal Work - Promise Shown by New Exhibitors."  Gazette (Montreal)  .  p.12.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "R.C.A. Show Opened with Private View. Fifty-first Annual Exhibition Housed in Art Association Galleries."  Gazette (Montreal)  .  p.18.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Un interessant salon d'automne. C'est celui de l'Académie Royale qui se tient à la Gallerie des Arts, rue Sherbrooke."  Le Canada (Montreal)  .  p.4.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, ) A. V. Thomson.  "The Academy Show."  Canadian Forum  .  pp.128-130.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Le salon d'automne."  Revue Populaire  .  23.1: PP.7-10.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Art Association 48th Spring Show High In Interest."  Gazette (Montreal)  .  p.16.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Canadian Artists Are Well Represented At R.C.A. Exhibition."  Montreal Star  .  p.19.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Wide Range of Art In R.C.A. Exhibition."  Gazette (Montreal)  .  p.10.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Spring Exhibition of Art Association Was Opened on Thursday."  Montreal Star  .  p.19.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "50th Spring Show Opened to Public. Jury Shows Open Mind. From Over 1,000 Entries, 543 Works Representative of Various Schools Have Been Selected."  Gazette (Montreal)  .  p.6.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Fifty-First Spring Exhibition of the Art Association."  Montreal Star  .  p.15.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Spring Exhibition of Art Association Opened on Thursday."  Montreal Star  .  p.17.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Nearly 500 Works at Spring Exhibit. Variety in Show at Galleries of Art Association of Montreal. 1,080 Items Submitted. Judges Reveal Open Minds and 52nd Annual Contains Much to Meet Differing Tastes."  Gazette (Montreal)  .  p.3.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Spring Exhibition on Generous Scale. Show at Art Gallery Opened Last Night Contains 621 Items."  Gazette (Montreal)  .  p.2.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Annual Spring Exhibition at Art Association."  Montreal Star  .  p.8.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Nearly 500 Works at Spring Exhibit. Art Association's 54th Annual Show Opens with Private Views. Judges Open-Minded."  Gazette (Montreal)  .  p.13,17.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "The Spring Exhibition of the Art Association."  Montreal Star  .  p.17.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) McInnis, G. Campbell.  "World of Art."  Saturday Night  .  p.27.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Works in Art Exhibition Are of Unusual Merit. New Policy of Showing More Carefully Selected Pieces Followed by Association."  Montreal Star  .  p.17.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) Robert Ayre.  "Evolution In Canadian Art Principle Message of Exhibition. 56th In Art Association's History."  Standard (Montreal)  .  p.20.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Art Association Opens 57th Spring Exhibit. Notable Feature of Display Is Unusually Large Proportion Of Portraits or Portrait Studies."  Montreal Star  .  p.19.   Full-text pdf

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