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LINDOE, Vivian
- Born
- Calgary, Alberta, 1918
- Died
- Comox Valley, British Columbia, 2006
- Biography synopsis
- In addition to painting, Vivian Lindoe also worked in ceramics, printmaking, and textiles. She studied at the Technical Institute in Calgary as well as the Instituto d’Allende in San Miguel, Mexico. As a member of the short-lived "Calgary Group" her painting was loosely structured around modernism. Her work was included in the Calgary Group exhibitions at the Vancouver Art Gallery in 1948 and the Art Gallery of Windsor. With her husband Luke Lindoe, himself a recognized ceramics artist, she played a major part in the production of many of the early works created by the Lindoe Pottery Studios in Medicine Hat between 1954 and 1957. She also served as president and exhibition coordinator of the Medicine Hat Community Art Clubs Association in 1959. Her work was shown in traveling exhibitions representing the work of Alberta artists in Calgary, Winnipeg, Ottawa, Mexico and the USA, and was included in the collection at Alberta House, London, England. A number of her prints are held by the Alberta Foundation for the Arts.
- Media used
- Ceramics
- Painting
- Printmaking
- Textiles
- Education
- Provincial Institute of Art and Technology, Calgary, Alberta
- Institute Allende, San Miguel de Allende
- Memberships
- Calgary Group
- Medicine Hat Community Art Clubs Association
- File & Archive locations
- Art Gallery of Ontario - Edward P. Taylor Research Library and Archives
- Calgary Public Library, AB - Arts Department
- National Gallery of Canada, ON - Library and Archives
- University of British Columbia - Fine Arts Library
- University of Calgary Library, AB
- Vancouver Public Library, BC - Fine Arts and History Department
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
Writings about- "Works by Female Artists give 'One Long View' of World." Lethbridge Herald 5 Feb. 1980: 6
- Antonelli, Marylu, Maryly Walters, and Jack Forbes. Pottery in Alberta: the Long Tradition Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 1978
- Crawford, Gail. Studio Ceramics in Canada Fredericton: Goose Lane Editions, 2005
- J.S.. "The Calgary Group at the Art Center." Saskatoon Star Phoenix 11 Sep. 1948
- Kerr, Illingsworth. "'Exciting Exhibition' now at Coste House." Calgary Herald 5 June 1948
- Macdonald, James. "Heralding a New Group." Canadian Art 5 (1947): 35-36
- Murray, Rona. Studio Ceramics in Alberta II: 1953-1962 Edmonton: Alberta Art Foundation, 1982
- Myles, Ruth. "The Glenbow's Made in Calgary explores the City's Art Scene in the 1960s." Calgary Herald 2 Apr. 2013
- Townshend, Nancy. A History of Art in Alberta, 1905-1970 Calgary, Alberta: Bayeux, 2005
- Zimon, Kathy E. Alberta Society of Artists: The First Seventy Years Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2000
