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REID, Isobelle Chestnut
- Born
- Fredericton, New Brunswick, 1903
- Died
- , ?
- Biography synopsis
- Reid attended the Ontario College of Art where she studied with Arthur Lismer, J.E.H. MacDonald, and J. W. Beatty. After graduating from OCA, she continued her studies at the Parsons School of Fine and Applied Arts in New York. In 1942 Reid traveled to San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, where she worked with Leonard and Reva Brooks. She was recognized for figurative works, as well as still life and landscape paintings in both oil and watercolour. Reid was an active member of the Hayden Street or Studio Group of Painters, formed by Barker Fairly in 1938 in Toronto. She was also the first member of the Studio Group to hold a one-person show at the Hart House in Toronto in 1943. During her career Reid exhibited with the Ontario Society of Artists (1933), the Royal Canadian Academy (1936), and the Picture Loan Society (1938). Her work is held in the Art Gallery of Ontario.
- Media used
- Painting
- Education
- Ontario College of Art & Design (formerly Ontario School of Art) (under Arthur Lismer, J.E.H. MacDonald, and J. W. Beatty)
- Parsons School of Design, New York
- Memberships
- Hayden Street/Studio Group
- File & Archive locations
- National Gallery of Canada, ON - Library and Archives
- Art Gallery of Ontario - Edward P. Taylor Research 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- Art Gallery of Ontario. The Canadian Collection Toronto: McGraw-Hill Co. of Canada, 1970
- Hughes, Margaret E. A Guide to Canadian Painters Toronto: King's Printer, 1940
- McMann, Evelyn de Rostaing. Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Formerly Art Association of Montreal: Spring Exhibitions, 1880-1970 Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1988
- 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
- Prakash, A. K. Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art Buffalo, New York: Firefly Books, 2008
- Virtue, John. Leonard and Reva Brooks: Artists in Exile in San Miguel de Allende Montreal: McGill Queen's University Press, 2001
- Westbridge, Anthony R. The Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction Vancouver: Westbridge Publications, 2001
Full text pdfs of exhibition reviews- Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, March 15, 1940) "Art Association Opens 57th Spring Exhibit. Notable Feature of Display Is Unusually Large Proportion Of Portraits or Portrait Studies." Montreal Star March 21, 1940. p.19. Full-text pdf
