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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, British Columbia: Gwen Lamont, 1978

Full text pdfs of exhibition reviews
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Art Association Spring Show Opens. Private View Inaugurates Exhibition Containing Over Five Hundred Works."  Gazette (Montreal)  .  p.17.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Fifty-First Spring Exhibition of the Art Association."  Montreal Star  .  p.15.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Spring Exhibition on Generous Scale. Show at Art Gallery Opened Last Night Contains 621 Items."  Gazette (Montreal)  .  p.2.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Annual Spring Exhibition at Art Association."  Montreal Star  .  p.8.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Nearly 500 Works at Spring Exhibit. Art Association's 54th Annual Show Opens with Private Views. Judges Open-Minded."  Gazette (Montreal)  .  p.13,17.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "The Spring Exhibition of the Art Association."  Montreal Star  .  p.17.   Full-text pdf

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