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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
