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RANEY, Suzanne Bryant

Born
London, England, 1918
Died
Ontario, 1967
Biography synopsis
In 1919 Raney's family settled in Canada. At 18 she became a student at the Ontario College of Art, studying various media, including printmaking, sculpture, serigraph, lithograph, watercolour, and oils. In 1960 she held a show at the Macdonald Institute described the works thusly: "From fairly factual reports of a familiar locale these eventually are abstracted until lightened and reduced to the most economical pictorial terms, they are fully meaningful and individual expressions of the artist's experience." In 1965 the Society of Canadian Painter-Etchers and Engravers chose one of her works for the Honourary Members print. Raney has taught at the Nova Scotia College of Art (now the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design). Her work is held at the Art Gallery of Hamilton and London Museum (Ontario).
Media used
Engraving
Printmaking
Sculpture
Education
Ontario College of Art & Design (formerly Ontario School of Art), 1936 - 1936? (under Franklin Carmichael, J. W. Beatty, Rowley Murphy)
Memberships
Society of Canadian Painter-Etchers and Engravers, 1965
File & Archive locations
National Gallery of Canada, ON - Library and Archives
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts / Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, QC
Canadian Women Artists History Initiative Documentation Centre, QC
BIBLIOGRAPHY

Writings about
American Federation of Arts. Who's Who in American Art, 1970. Michigan, Detroit: R. R. Bowker, 1970
Gallery Lambton. Connections: A Student Curated Exhibition. Sarnia, Ontario: Gallery Lambton, 2003
Havlice, Patricia Pate. Index to Artistic Biography. Metuchen, New Jersey: Scarecrow Press, 1973
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
McMann, Evelyn de Rostaing. Royal Canadian Academy of Arts/Académie royale des arts du Canada: Exhibitions and Members 1880-1979 Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1981

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