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GARWOOD, Audrey Elaine
- Born
- Toronto, Ontario, 1927
- Died
- California, 2004
- Biography synopsis
- Noted for her landscape painting, Audrey Garwood, a graduate of the Ontario College of Art (1951), was the first woman and the youngest person to win the Forster Award of the Ontario Society of Artists with a scholarship for postgraduate studies both in Reiksakademie in Amsterdam and Grande Chaumiere in Paris. In 1965, she won a prize for painting and taught at the Art Gallery of Toronto, (now the Art Gallery of Ontario) as well as the California College of Arts and Crafts. She began early to develop her distinctive style, brightly coloured and intense, and produced major works for more than fifty years. Widowed (in 1965) with four children to raise alone, she was clearly tireless in her pursuit of painting and printmaking (which took her to the Amazon and to the Arctic, Baffin Island, Labrador, and also to China), despite her duties and responsibilities as a mother and as a teacher (she taught art for many years at Central Technical School in Toronto).
- Media used
- Painting
- Printmaking
- Education
- Ontario College of Art & Design (formerly Ontario School of Art), ? - 1951
- Académie de la Grande Chaumière, Paris
- Reiksakademie (Amsterdam)
- File & Archive locations
- Edmonton Art Gallery, AB - Library
- Art Gallery of Ontario - Edward P. Taylor Research Library and Archives
- National Gallery of Canada, ON - Library and Archives
- London Public Library, ON
- University of British Columbia - Fine Arts Library
- Winnipeg Art Gallery, MA - Clara Lander Library
- Vancouver Art Gallery, BC - Library
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
Writings about- Dault, Gary Michael. "If It can't Float, Is It still a Canoe?." The Globe and Mail 8 Nov. 2008:
- Lefebvre, Germain, Landori, Eva and Elie, Robert. Salon international de la Gravure : Montréal 1971/ International Exhibition of Graphics : Montréal 1971. Montreal, QC: Musée des Beaux-arts de Montréal/Montreal Museum of Fine Art, 1971
- 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.
- McCarthy, Pearl. "Work in OSA Exhibition Provocative." The Globe and Mail 28 Feb. 1953: 15
- Shaw, Ted. "Artist's Work speaks for itself." The Windsor Star 7 Nov 1985: A15
