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PRAT, Annie

Born
Paradise, Newfloundland, 1861
Died
Windsor, Nova Scotia, 1960
Biography synopsis
Annie Prat moved to Nova Scotia as a young girl and studied at the Ladies Seminary (Acadia University). In 1896-7 she attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and also studied miniature painting with Cecile Payen. Prat subsequently moved to New York where she established a studio and developed a practice in miniature painting which she also taught. She also worked with two of her sisters who founded the Primrose Bindery in New York. She eventually returned to Windsor, Nova Scotia where her she produced portrait miniatures and botanical painting (wildflowers and fungi); she produced 200 works from 1883-1940. In 1917 she became the first Dean of of Women at King's College in Windsor, and continued to illustrate flora and fauna as well as write poetry. She later became a member of the Nova Scotia Poetry Society, King's College Alexandria Society, and the Canadian Author's Society. Annie Prat donated over 200 of her watercolours to the Public Archives of Nova Scotia before her death in 1960.
Media used
Miniatures
Painting
Watercolour
Education
Acadia University
Art Institute of Chicago, 1896 - 1897
File & Archive locations
Nova Scotia Archives & Records Management
National Gallery of Canada, ON - Library and Archives
BIBLIOGRAPHY

Writings about
The Prat Exhibition: Three Talented Sisters. Halifax, Nova Scotia: Public Archives of Nova Scotia, 1986
"Archives Acquire Paintings - Gift of N.S. Artist's Sister." Halifax Chronicle Herald 29 Sept. 1961
"Display Art of Windsor Woman." Halifax Mail-Star 7 Feb. 1959
Campbell, Margaret. "The Prat Sisters: Free Spirits of the 1890s." Journal of the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society 10 (2007): 1-24.
Davies, Gwendolyn. "The Elephant and the Primrose: the Prat Sisters in New York." The Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies 1992 (Fall-Spring1997): 129-143
Gerson, Carole. Canadian Women in Print, 1750 - 1918. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2011
Harper, J. Russell. Early Painters and Engravers in Canada Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1970
Huneault, Kristina. I'm Not Myself at All: Women, Art, and Subjectivity in Canada Montreal; Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2018
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.
O'Neill, Mora, Dianne. "A Path to Learning: Early Nova Scotian Women Artists." Art Gallery of Nova Scotia Journal 39 (Spring/Summer 2012): 26
Sparling, Mary. "The Prat Exhibition - Three Talented Sister (Exhibition Review)." Archivaria 26 (1988): 219-222

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