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HOLDEN, Sarah Baldwin (Sara)
- Born
- Belleville, Ontario, 1862
- Died
- Riverview, California, ?
- Biography synopsis
- Sarah Holden, like many women who studied painting in Canada, traveled to Europe to pursue further training. While living in Montreal in 1881.she took painting courses with Richard Harris and William Brymner at the Art Association of Montreal. In addition to studying at the Art Students League in New York, she attended the Academie Julian in Paris, taking classes with Tony Robert-Fleury and Jules Lefebvre in the early 1890s. While at the Academie she developed a longstanding friendship with Florence Carlyle another Canadian painting student. In 1900 she was known to be studying in London and Holland; a number of her genre paintings represent scenes in Holland. Her portraits and genre paintings were exhibited at the Art Association of Montreal and the Royal Canadian Academy for many of the years between1886 and1897 as well as the Ontario Society of Artists (1893-4). Exhibition reviews of these associations frequently singled out her work, and in 1896, she was described as "one of the foremost Canadian artists." In 1893 she won a gold medal at the Chicago World's Fair, and a few years later, in 1895, she became an Associate member of the Royal Canadian Academy. She was considered among the women who were instrumental in forming the Women's Art Association of Canada (Montreal chapter) where she exhibited in 1894. In 1902 she received an honourable mention for her work. She withdrew from the RCA after her marriage to an American and moving to the United States. She was never again heard of in the Canadian milieu.
- Media used
- Painting
- Education
- Art Students' League, New York
- Académie Julian, Paris
- Art Association of Montreal (under Robert Harris, William Brymner)
- Memberships
- Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, 1895-1907
- Women's Art Association of Canada
- File & Archive locations
- Montreal Museum of Fine Arts / Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, QC
- National Gallery of Canada, ON - Library and Archives
- Canadian Women Artists History Initiative Documentation Centre, QC
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
Writings about- Butlin, Susan. A New Matrix of the Arts: A History of the Professionalization of Canadian Women Artists, 1880-1914. Ottawa, Ontario: Carleton University, 2008
- Butlin, Susan. Making a Living: Florence Carlyle and the Negotiation of a Professional Artistic Identity Ottawa: Carleton University, 1995
- Butlin, Susan. The Practice of her Profession: Florence Carlyle, Canadian Painter in the Age of Impressionism. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2009
- Davies, Blodwen. "Canadian Women of Brush and Chisel." Chatelaine 3 (Jun. 1930): 9, 42
- Harper, J. Russell. Early Painters and Engravers in Canada Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1970
- Hopkins, J. C., ed. "Canadian Artists of Today." Canada: An Encyclopedia of the Country. Toronto: Linscott, 1900
- Huneault, Kristina and Janice Anderson, eds. Rethinking Professionalism: Women and Art in Canada, 1850-1970. Montreal: McGill-Queen's Press, 2012
- McLeod, Ellen Mary Easton. In Good Hands: The Women of the Canadian Handicrafts Guild. Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1999
- Montiege, Samuel. L'Academie Julian et ses eleves canadiens: Paris 1880-1900. Montreal, Quebec: Universite de Montreal, 2011
- National Council of Women of Canada. Women of Canada: Their Life and Work. Montreal: National Council of Women, 1900
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Full text pdfs of exhibition reviews- Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, Canada, ) "The Art Exhibition. Second Notice." Montreal Herald . p.5. Full-text pdf
- Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition.: (Montreal, ) "Among the Pictures. The Annual Spring Exhibition of the R.C.A." Gazette (Montreal) . p.8. Full-text pdf
- Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition.: (Montreal, ) "The Art Exhibition. Some Notices of the Pictures Displayed." Montreal Daily Herald . p.8. Full-text pdf
- Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "The Art Exhibition. Some Notices of the Pictures Displayed." Montreal Daily Herald . P.8. Full-text pdf
- Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "The Spring Exhibition. Private View at the Art Gallery Last Evening." Gazette (Montreal) . p.5. Full-text pdf
- Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Art Association. Spring Exhibition - Picture Sales." Montreal Star . p.4. Full-text pdf
- Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Royal Canadian Academy. Reception and Private View-The Artists and Their Works." Montreal Star . p.6. Full-text pdf
- Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "The Art Gallery Thrown Open to Visitors Yesterday." Montreal Herald . p.6. Full-text pdf
- Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, ) Carl Fuller. "Royal Canadian Academy. Impressions of the Spring Exhibition at the Art Gallery- Some Promising Students." Gazette (Montreal) . p.2. Full-text pdf
- Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Art Association. The Annual Spring Exhibition." Montreal Star . p.3. Full-text pdf
- Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "The Canadian Art Exhibition." Daily Witness (Montreal) . p.4. Full-text pdf
- Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "The Art Gallery. Further Review of the Exhibition's Pictures." Montreal Herald . p.5. Full-text pdf
- Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "The Spring Exhibition. Some Notes and Comments on the Pictures at the Gallery of the Art Association." Gazette (Montreal) . p.2. Full-text pdf
- Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Art Association Prizes." Daily Witness (Montreal) . p.4. Full-text pdf
- Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Art Association Prizes." Montreal Star . p.5. Full-text pdf
- Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "The Royal Canadian Academy Exhibition." Montreal Star . p.6. Full-text pdf
- Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "With Artists. Annual Exhibition by the Royal Canadian Academy." Montreal Herald . p.2. Full-text pdf
- Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "At the Art Gallery. Many Fine Pictures on View - Notice of Some of those Exhibited." Montreal Star . p.4. Full-text pdf
- Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "At the Art Gallery. Still Life in the Canadian Academy Pictures." Montreal Star . p.1. Full-text pdf
- Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, ) John Popham. "The R.C.A. Exhibition. A Criticism of Some of the Pictures Now on View." Gazette (Montreal) . p.7. Full-text pdf
- Ontario Society of Artists Annual Exhibition: (Toronto, ) F.E.G.. "Art and Artists." Toronto Saturday Night . p.15. Full-text pdf
- Ontario Society of Artists Annual Exhibition: (Toronto, ) "Ontario Art Exhibition. The Annual Collection of the Society of Artists- a Splendid Showing of Oils and Watercolours." Globe . p. 17. Full-text pdf
- Ontario Society of Artists Annual Exhibition: (Toronto, ) "Art Notes." The Week . p.540. Full-text pdf
- Ontario Society of Artists Annual Exhibition: (Toronto, ) "Art Notes." The Week . p.540. Full-text pdf
- Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Ottawa, ) "Beauty in Colors. Leading Pictures at the Art Exhibition Described." Evening Journal (Ottawa) . p.5. Full-text pdf
- Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Ottawa, ) "Art Notes. The Royal Canadian Academy's Exhibition." The Week (Toronto) . p.448-9. Full-text pdf
- Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Art Exhibition. The 15th Spring Exhibition of the Art Association." Montreal Herald . p.6. Full-text pdf
- Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "The Art Exhibition Opens This Evening at the Art Institution." Montreal Star . p.6. Full-text pdf
- Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "A Few Pictures. At the Spring Exhibition of the Art Association." Montreal Herald . p.8. Full-text pdf
- Ontario Society of Artists Annual Exhibition: (Toronto, ) "The Ontario Society of Artists." Toronto Saturday Night . p.7. Full-text pdf
- Ontario Society of Artists Annual Exhibition: (Toronto, ) "Among the Pictures. A View of the Ontario Society's Exhibition. Good Work on the Walls. Old Favourites and New Aspirants Represented." Globe (Toronto) . p.5. Full-text pdf
- Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Art Gallery Jottings. The Different Pictures Ably Criticised. An Improvement on Former Years." Montreal Metropolitan . Unknown. Full-text pdf
- Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Art Association." Daily Witness (Montreal) . p.10. Full-text pdf
- Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "The Spring Exhibition. Opened at the Art Gallery Last Night." Montreal Daily Star . p.1. Full-text pdf
- Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Canadian Artists' Work. The Exhibition at the Art Gallery. To Be Formally Opened This Evening - Some of the Pictures of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, Which Are on View." Montreal Star . p.8. Full-text pdf
- Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Among the Paintings. Some of the New Canvases Hanging in the Art Gallery." Daily Witness (Montreal) . p.10. Full-text pdf
- Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "The Art Exhibition. Some Beautiful Landscapes on View." Daily Witness (Montreal) . p.1. Full-text pdf
- Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, ) Hariet Ford. "Canadian Pictures. The Royal Academy Exhibition at Montreal." Daily Mail and Empire (Toronto) . p.3. Full-text pdf
- Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, ) Harriet Ford. "Canadian Pictures. The Royal Canadian Academy Exhibition at Montreal. A Second Letter from Miss Harriet Ford-She Characterizes Methods and Manner-Styles of Oil Painting Described-The Water-Colour Department of the Exhibition." Daily Mail and Empire (Toronto) . p.9. Full-text pdf
- Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Among the Paintings. The New Canvasses at the Art Gallery." Daily Witness (Montreal) . p.12. Full-text pdf
- Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, ) Lynn C. Doyle. "Art." Saturday Night (Toronto) . p.15. Full-text pdf
- Women's Art Association of Canada (Tor) - 8th Annual Spring Exhibition: (Robert's Art Galleries, ) "Women And Art. Annual Exhibition of the Woman's Art Association. Purely Canadian Exhibits. Great Discretion Exercised in the Selection of Paintings. Lieutenant-Governor Kirkpatrick and Party Present at the Opening-The Exhibit Open Till the 17." Globe and Mail . p.8. Full-text pdf
- Women's Art Association of Canada (Tor) - 8th Annual Spring Exhibition: (Robert's Art Galleries, ) "ART" Toronto Saturday Night . p.9. Full-text pdf
- Women's Art Association of Canada (Tor) - 9th Annual Spring Exhibition: (Robert's Art Galleries, ) "Woman's Art Association. Annual Exhibition of Paintings by Members of the Association-Other Cities Represented." Globe and Mail (Toronto) . p.6. Full-text pdf
- Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Spring Exhibition. A Private View to be Held on Thursday Evening. Excellent Portraits." Gazette (Montreal) . p.3. Full-text pdf
- Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Art Exhibition. Pictures Generally Poor, with Notable Exceptions. Some of the Paintings Described." Daily Witness (Montreal) . p.1. Full-text pdf
- Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "The Spring Exhibition. Some of the Striking Pictures of the Exhibition." Montreal Star . p.5. Full-text pdf
- Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Spring Exhibition. The Private View and Conversazione. A Successful Function." Gazette (Montreal) . p.5. Full-text pdf
- Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) Werthemer, G. de. "L'exposition annuelle de peintures a l'Art Association. Revue complete du salon." Les Nouvelles (Montreal) . p.2,8. Full-text pdf
