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COLLYER, Nora Frances Elizabeth
- Born
- Montreal, Quebec, 1898
- Died
- Montreal, Quebec, 1979
- Biography synopsis
- Nora Frances Elizabeth Collyer studied for nine years at the Art Association of Montreal with Alberta Cleland, William Brymner and Maurice Cullen. In 1913 and 1914 she won scholarships at the Association. She taught art at Trafalgar School, Montreal, between 1925 and 1930, and she taught at the Art Association of Montreal in 1940. She exhibited her work at a number of the Canadian Group of Painters shows, and at the New York World’s Fair (1939). Her first solo exhibition was at the Dominion Gallery, Montreal (1946), and she had a second show at the Walter Klinkhoff Gallery in 1964. Her work was the subject of a retrospective exhibition organized by the National Gallery of Canada in 1969. Collyer was a member of the Beaver Hall Group, a group of thirty Montreal artists who exhibited together around 1921-22.
- Media used
- Painting
- Education
- Art Association of Montreal (under Alberta Cleland; William Brymner; Maurice Cullen)
- Memberships
- Beaver Hall Group, 1921
- File & Archive locations
- University of British Columbia - Fine Arts Library
- London Public Library, ON
- National Gallery of Canada, ON - Library and Archives
- Art Gallery of Ontario - Edward P. Taylor Research Library and Archives
- Montreal Museum of Fine Arts / Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, QC
- Toronto Reference Library, ON
- Canadian Women Artists History Initiative Documentation Centre, QC
- Library and Archives Canada / Bibliothèque et Archives Canada, ON
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
Writings about- Avon, Susan. The Beaver Hall Group and its Place in the Montreal Art Milieu and the Nationalist Network. Montreal: Concordia University, 1994
- Davies, Blodwen. "Canadian Women of Brush and Chisel." Chatelaine 3 (Jun. 1930): 9, 42
- Des Rochers Jacques, and Brian Foss, editors. 1920s Modernism in Montreal: The Beaver Hall Group. Une Modernite des Annees 1920 Montreal, Le Groupe de Beaver Hall Montreal, QC: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts ; Black Dog Publishing, 2015
- Gwyn, Sandra. Women in the Arts in Canada. Ottawa: Royal Commission on the Status of Women, 1971
- Kollar, Kathryn L. Women Painters of the Beaver Hall Group. Montreal: Concordia Art Gallery, 1982
- Lerner, Loren. "From Victorian Girl Reader to Modern Women Artist: Reading and Seeing in the paintings of the Canadian Girl by William Brymner, Emily Coonan, and Prudence Heward." Canadian Children's Literature 33.2 (2007): 19-50
- 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.
- Meadowcroft, Barbara. Painting Friends: The Beaver Hall Women Painters. Montreal: Vehicule Press, 1999
- Millar, Joyce. "The Beaver Hall Group: Painting in Montreal 1920-1940." Woman's Art Journal 13.1 (Spring-Summer 1992): 3-9
- Morgan-Powell, S. "A Final Glance Around the Art Exhibition Here." Star (Montreal) 12 Apr. 1922
- National Gallery of Canada. The Beaver Hall Hill Group/Le groupe de Beaver Hall Hill. Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1966
- Walters, Evelyn. The Beaver Hall Group and its Legacy. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2017
- Walters, Evelyn. The Women of Beaver Hall: Canadian Modernist Painters. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2005
Full text pdfs of exhibition reviews- Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Artist's Efforts Reach High Level." Gazette (Montreal) . p.6. 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, ) "Quelques heros de Louis Hemon en sculpture. Maria Chapdelaine, son père et sa mère figurent au Salon des Artistes. Oeuvres de Suzor Cote." La Presse (Montreal) . p.12. 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, ) "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, ) S. Morgan-Powell. "Academy Exhibition Canvases That Have Attracted Attention." Montreal Star . p.6. Full-text pdf
- Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Over 300 Exhibits in Spring Art Show. Forty-fourth Exhibition Opened with Private View Last Night. Will Close April 18. Landscapes and Marines Predominate - Some Prominent Artists and Several of Younger Group Unrepresented." Gazette (Montreal) . p.6. Full-text pdf
- Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) H. P. Bell. "Landscape Prevails in Spring Exhibition of Art Association." Montreal Star . p.6. 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
- 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
- Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Spring Exhibition Has Private View." Gazette (Montreal) . p.3. 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
- 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, ) "Art Association Spring Show Opens. Private View Inaugurates Exhibition Containing Over Five Hundred Works." Gazette (Montreal) . p.17. 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, ) "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 of Art Association Opened on Thursday." Montreal Star . p.17. 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, ) "The Spring Exhibition of the Art Association." Montreal Star . p.17. 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
- Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Royal Canadian Academy Show is Opened at Art Association. Portraiture Represented by Good Examples and Landscapes as Usual Predominate." Gazette (Montreal) . p.12. 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
- Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (, ) "R.C.A. Exhibition Has Private View. Over 300 Works in Galleries of Art Association of Montreal. Standard Maintained." Gazette (Montreal) . p.5. Full-text pdf
- Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (, ) "Canadian Academy Opens Sixtieth Exhibition." Montreal Star . p.11. 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
