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BERTRAM, Jane (Janie)
- Born
- Peterborough, Ontario, 1872
- Died
- Toronto, Ontario, 1940
- Biography synopsis
- Best known as a painter of ceramics, Bertram began studying art at Moulton College with Mary Ella Dignam. Secretary of the Women's Art Association of Canada, she participated in the production of the Canadian dinner service. Her contribution included 12 cups and saucers decorated with Canadian wildlife (now in Haddo House, Scotland). painted floral studies in water-colours, and was active for some time as a china painter. She exhibited her work extensively through the Women's Art Association of Canada (WAAC), and in later years she was the resident manager of the association. In the 1930s, she was a member of the Board of Directors of the Ontario College of Art, representing the WAAC.
- Media used
- China painting
- Memberships
- Women's Art Association of Canada
- File & Archive locations
- Hamilton Public Library, ON - Local History and Archives Department
- Canadian Women Artists History Initiative Documentation Centre, QC
- Women's Art Association of Canada Archives, ON
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
Writings about- A National Reference Book on Canadian Men and Women Montreal and Toronto: Canadian Newspaper Service, Registered, 1936: 833
- "Creating the Dinner Service: The Artists: Jane Bertram Canadian Museum of Civilization ?
http://www.historymuseum.ca/cmc/exhibitions/hist/cadeau/caser06e.html - "Handicrafts Patron is Dead." The Globe (Toronto) Sept 16,1940
- Canadian Museum of Civilization. This Splendid Gift: the Canadian Historical Dinner Service Ottawa: Canadian Museum of History, 1999
http://www.historymuseum.ca/cmc/exhibitions/hist/cadeau/caint02e.html - Collard, Elizabeth. Nineteenth-Century Pottery and Porcelain in Canada Kingston and Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1984, 320-321
- Cronin, Keri. "Science on a Salad Plate: Thinking about the Representation of Natural History in the Canadian Historic Dinner Service Project 1." Natural Science in the New World: The Descriptive Enterprise 31: 1-2 (2008)
http://www.erudit.org/en/journals/scientia/2008-v31-n1-2-scientia2574/019757ar.pdf - McCarthy, Pearl. "Art and Artists." The Globe (Toronto) Sept 21, 1940
- McLeod, Ellen Mary Easton. In Good Hands: The Women of the Canadian Handicrafts Guild Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1999
- McLeod, Keith A. "The Splendid Gift." Antique Showcase 33.7 (Apr. 1998): 46-50
Full text pdfs of exhibition reviews- Women's Art Association of Canada (Tor) - Spring Exhibition: (, April 25, 1891) Puck. "Paintings by Women. The Women's Art Club's Third Exhibition. The Progress of a Year. An Advance in the Merit of the Exhibits. Womens Place in Art - An increased number of exhibitors - Fewer but more important paintings." Globe and Mail (Toronto) April 25, 1891. p.2. Full-text pdf
- Women's Art Association of Canada (T) - Annual Exhibition: (, November 27, 1918) Toronto World December 02, 1918. p.7. Full-text pdf
