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BAXTER, Adeline
- Born
- Newport on Tay, Scotland, 1881
- Died
- Victoria, British Columbia, 1959
- Biography synopsis
- When Adeline Baxter was ten, she immigrated with her family to Winnipeg, Manitoba. In 1902, she began art studies at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston where she won a Life Class Prize in 1905. On returning to Canada, she taught in Coleman, Alberta before becoming an art teacher in the Winnipeg school system where she was named Supervisor of Art in 1913. After a few years of summer visits to Victoria, Baxter moved there in 1929 to take an appointment as Supervisor in Art for city schools. While in Winnipeg Baxter was active in the Winnipeg Arts Club, and later in Victoria with the Island Arts and Crafts Society. Her work included landscapes, street scenes, portraiture, and she was also recognized as a miniatures painter. Baxter exhibited at the Royal Canadian Academy in 1914, the First Spring Exhibition of the Winnipeg Art Club in 1915 and the First Annual Lieutenant Governor Exhibition, Victoria in 1936. In addition to her role as an art educator, she was a distinguished member of the Canadian Alpine Club.
- Media used
- Oil painting
- Painting
- Watercolour
- Education
- Boston Museum of Fine Arts School, 1902 - ?
- Memberships
- Winnipeg Art Club
- Island Arts and Crafts Society
- File & Archive locations
- British Columbia Archives
- Winnipeg Art Gallery, MA - Clara Lander Library
- Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, AB - Archives & Library
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
Writings about- Annual Report of the Permanent Committee in Charge of the School By Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Boston, MA: 1906
- Canadian Paintings, Sculpture, Watercolours, Graphic and Applied Art. Architectual Exhibit and Salon of Photography. Toronto: Canadian National Exhibition, 1930. Toronto, Ontario: Canadian National Exhibition, 1930
- Exhibition of Paintings by Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, January-March, Nineteen-Fourteen. [Winnipeg] Winnipeg: Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, 1914
- "A Manitoba Woman Artist.” Winnipeg Free Press 8 Feb. 1913
- "Art." Winnipeg Free Press May 23, 1912: 3
- "Judging continues in Amateur Art." Winnipeg Free Press June 20, 1911: 16
- “Arts and Crafts Display to Open.” The Daily Colonist 20 Oct. 1929
- “Commercial Winnipeg Is a Fine Art Centre!” Winnipeg Tribune 3 May, 1915
- “Credible Display of Winnipeg Art.” Winnipeg Free Press 16 May 1912
- “Drawing Outline. - Sept. Oct. 1920.” Western School Journal 15.7 (September 1920): 271–74.
- “Judging Continues in Amateur Art.” Winnipeg Free Press 20 July 1911
- “Lieutenant-Governor Will Open Annual Art Exhibit.” The Daily Colonist 25 Oct. 1936
- “More Awards Made in Amateur Art Class.” Winnipeg Free Press 21 July 1911
- “Social and Personal.” The Daily Colonist 25 Aug. 1920
- “Social and Personal.” The Daily Colonist 5 Jan. 1929
- “Supervisor in Art Is Named.” The Daily Colonist 13 Dec. 1928
- “Winning Honors Abroad: Former Coleman School Teacher Climbs Ladder of Art.” Coleman Bulletin 28 Feb. 1913: 8
http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/newspapers/CMB/1913/02/28/8/Ar00811.html?query=newspapers%7Cbaxter%7C%28date%3A1913%2F02%2F28%29+AND+%28publication%3ACMB%29%7Cscore - “Women’s Work and Institutes.” The Daily Colonist 11 Aug. 1929
- Baker, Marilyn. The Winnipeg School of Art: The Early Years Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 1984
- Chown, Diana. Painting in The Canadian Rockies between 1845 and 1923: An Overview Edmonton Alberta: University of Alberta (M.A. thesis), 1986
- Winnipeg Art Club. First Spring Exhibition of the Winnipeg Art Club Richarson Bros. Art Galleries, 1915
Writings by- Baxter, Adeline. “Drawing Outline - Sept. Oct. 1920.” Western School Journal 15.7 (Sept. 1920): 271-274
- Baxter, Adeline. “Hints on Drawing.” Western School Journal 15.10 (December 1920): 387–88.
- Baxter, Adeline. “Hints on Drawing.” Western School Journal 15.9 (November 1920): 358–59.
- Baxter, Adeline. “Hints on Drawing.” Western School Journal 15.7 (September 1920): 274–76.
