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MARTIN, Bernice Fenwick
- Born
- Shelbourne, Ontario, 1902
- Died
- Toronto, Ontario, 1999
- Biography synopsis
- Bernice Fenwick Martin was born in Shelbourne, Ontario in 1902. Her interest in drawing was evident from a young age and she first became an art student at Toronto Technical Schools as a teenager. She later studied at the Ontario College of Art under J. W. Beatty and Franklin Carmichael throughout the 1920s and 1930s. Martin was a painter and a printmaker. Her paintings were featured in the Royal Canadian Academy exhibitions from 1945 to 1947 and she held one-woman shows at Eaton's College Street Fine Art Galleries, at Casa Loma, at the Hamilton Art Gallery and at the Towne Cinema in Toronto.
- Media used
- Oil painting
- Pen and Ink
- Printmaking
- Watercolour
- Education
- Ontario College of Art & Design (formerly Ontario School of Art) (under J.W. Beatty, Franklin Carmichael)
- University of Toronto
- Toronto Technical Schools
- University of Alberta (under Toshi Yoshida)
- McMaster University
- Memberships
- Canadian Society of Painters, Etchers and Engravers
- Print and Drawing Council of Canada
- File & Archive locations
- Winnipeg Art Gallery, MA - Clara Lander Library
- Canadian Women Artists History Initiative Documentation Centre, QC
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
Writings about- "'Memories Are All I Have,' Says Fraud Victim." Ottawa Citizen 16 Jan. 1987: A1
- "Galleries." Toronto Star 27 Apr. 2006: G7
- American Federation of Arts. Who's Who in American Art, 1978 Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 1978
- Coffey, Bernice. "Portrait of the Artist." Toronto Saturday Night (17 Jan. 1953): 35
- Darroch, Wendy. "Widow Loses Homes, Painting to Neighbor's Fraud." Toronto Star 15 Sept. 1988: A1
- Donovan, Kevin. "Aged Artist Overwhelmed by Response to Her Plight." Toronto Star 18 Jan. 1987: A3
- Donovan, Kevin. "Widowed Artist, 84, Has Lost Life Savings, Home and Paintings, ..." Toronto Star 15 Jan. 1987: A1
- 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
