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LAMONT, Gwen Kortright Hutton
- Born
- Ft. MacLeod, Alberta, 1909
- Died
- Kelowna, British Columbia, 1978
- Biography synopsis
- As a young art student at the Ontario College of Art from 1925 to 1928, Gwen Hutton completed an honors degree in painting. On her return to Alberta in the early 1930s she joined other artists, including a number of women, to challenge their exclusion for their modernist tendencies from the Alberta Society of Artists. In 1932 her work was included in the Alberta Artists collection and exhibited in Vancouver; a number of her works were acquired for the gallery. From 1934 to 1937 she participated in the Art Association of Montreal's Annual Spring Exhibitions. She also studied theater arts at the Banff School of Art and later taught there. After marriage and raising a family in northern B.C., she moved to Kelowna in 1948 where she designed backdrops for the local theater and art groups. In 1976 she was instrumental in establishing the Kelowna Art Gallery.
- Media used
- Drawing
- Mural painting and decoration
- Painting
- Education
- Ontario College of Art & Design (formerly Ontario School of Art), 1925 - 1928 (under Arthur Lismer)
- Banff School of Fine Arts
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
Writings about- "Scheme Began with Carload of Paintings." Calgary Herald 15 May 1937
- Alberta Art Foundation. Spaces and Places: Eight Decades of Landscape Painting in Alberta Edmonton, Alberta: Alberta Art Foundation, 1986
http://archive.org/details/spacesplaces1986/page/n1/mode/2up - 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
- Norbury, F.H. "Alberta Artists Create Fine Western Spirit." Edmonton Journal 2 Sept. 1932
- Townshend, Nancy. A History of Art in Alberta, 1905-1970 Calgary, Alberta: Bayeux, 2005
- Zimon, Kathy E. Alberta Society of Artists: The First Seventy Years Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2000
Writings by- Lamont, Gwen. Early Sketches, 1932-1935 Kelowna: Gwen Lamont, 1978
Full text pdfs of exhibition reviews- Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, April 15, 1934) "Art Association Spring Show Opens. Private View Inaugurates Exhibition Containing Over Five Hundred Works." Gazette (Montreal) April 20, 1934. p.17. Full-text pdf
- Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, April 15, 1934) "Fifty-First Spring Exhibition of the Art Association." Montreal Star April 20, 1934. p.15. Full-text pdf
- Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, March 19, 1936) "Spring Exhibition on Generous Scale. Show at Art Gallery Opened Last Night Contains 621 Items." Gazette (Montreal) March 20, 1936. p.2. Full-text pdf
- Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, March 19, 1936) "Annual Spring Exhibition at Art Association." Montreal Star March 20, 1936. p.8. Full-text pdf
- Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, March 18, 1937) "Nearly 500 Works at Spring Exhibit. Art Association's 54th Annual Show Opens with Private Views. Judges Open-Minded." Gazette (Montreal) March 19, 1937. p.13,17. Full-text pdf
- Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, March 18, 1937) "The Spring Exhibition of the Art Association." Montreal Star March 19, 1937. p.17. Full-text pdf
