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DUNNING, Zoe
- Born
- Chichester, England, 1887
- Died
- Calgary, Alberta, 1962
- Biography synopsis
- Zoe Dunning (née Zoe Mary Hopkinson) moved to Calgary, Alberta with her family in 1896. She later married a RCMP officer which meant moving to various locations in Saskatchewan and Manitoba. By 1938, she had returned to Calgary and became an active member of the Calgary art community. She studied at the Provincial Institute of Technology and Art under British watercolourist A.C. Leighton; she also attended his "plein air" summer school sessions (1933) in the Banff area. She was a member of the Calgary Sketch Club as well as the Alberta Society of Artists. Deploying the British watercolour tradition, her subjects included Banff mountain landscapes as well as still lifes and urban landscapes. She exhibited in numerous group exhibitions in Calgary and throughout Canada. Some of her works are held in the Collection of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts.
- Media used
- Watercolour
- Education
- Provincial Institute of Art and Technology, Calgary, Alberta (under A.C. Leighton)
- Memberships
- Alberta Society of Artists
- Calgary Sketch Club
- File & Archive locations
- Canadian Women Artists History Initiative Documentation Centre, QC
- Glenbow Archives, AB - Main Catalogue
- Montreal Museum of Fine Arts / Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, QC
- National Gallery of Canada, ON - Library and Archives
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
Writings about- "Alberta Artists" The Globe and Mail 14 Mar. 1937: 14
- "Visitors Throng to Art Exhibit.” Calgary Herald 24 Apr. 1930: 13
- Conaty, Gerald, Mastin, Catharine and daryl Betenia. The Bow: Living with a River. Calgary, Alberta: Glenbow Museum, 2005
- Norbury, F.M.. "Alberta Pictures to Tour Dominion.” Edmonton Journal 07 Jan. 1946: 5
- Ring, Dan, Vanderhaeghe, and George Melnyk. The Urban Prairie Saskatoon, Saskatchewan: Mendel Gallery (Fifth House Publishers), 1993
- 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
