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CURRY, Ethel (Peggy)
- Born
- Gosport, England, 1885
- Died
- Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1966
- Biography synopsis
- Ethel Marie Curry, commonly referred to as "Peggy," studied painting in England under Stanley Royle. She was a landscape painter who worked in oils, and exhibited her work in St. John, Toronto, Montreal, and Halifax. Curry was a member of the Nova Scotia Association of Artists and is represented in the Museum of Fine Arts in Halifax (currently the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia).
- Media used
- Painting
- Education
- Private study (under Stanley Royle)
- Memberships
- Nova Scotia Society of Artists
- File & Archive locations
- National Gallery of Canada, ON - Library and Archives
- University of British Columbia - Fine Arts Library
- Canadian Women Artists History Initiative Documentation Centre, QC
- Library and Archives Canada / Bibliothèque et Archives Canada, ON
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
Writings about- “Royal Canadian Academy show opened by Gov General.” The Gazette 7 Nov 1947: 10.
- Brayley, Katharine. "A Regional Agency: Maritime Art Association Programming from 1935 to 1945" Montreal: Concordia University, 2010
- Canadian National Exhibition. Contemporary Art of Canada and Newfoundland: Collection of the International Business Machines Corporation New York: IBM Corporation, 1940
- 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
