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SCHEEPERS, Malvina (Mrs. F. S. Coburn)
- Born
- Belgium, 1896
- Died
- Paris, France, 1933
- Biography synopsis
- Malvina Scheepers was born in Belgium; her father was the Belgian architect Edouard Scheepers. In 1897 she began studying at the National Higher Institute for Fine Arts, Antwerp. It was there that she met Canadian artist Frederick Simpson Coburn, whom she married in 1915. The two divided their time between Coburn's hometown of Melbourne, Quebec, and Montreal, and traveled frequently to Europe. Between 1916 and 1921 Scheepers exhibited her work with the Royal Canadian Academy and with the Art Association of Montreal between 1918 and 1926. Scheepers is best known for her images of Dutch and Belgian rural landscapes, and genre paintings depicting farm scenes and cottage interiors, rendered in the style of The Hague School. Malvina Scheepers died in 1933 while on vacation in Paris with her husband, Frederick Coburn.
- Media used
- Painting
- Education
- National Higher Institute for Fine Arts, Antwerp
- File & Archive locations
- National Gallery of Canada, ON - Library and Archives
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
Writings about- Prakash, A. K. Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art Buffalo, New York: Firefly Books, 2008
Full text pdfs of exhibition reviews- Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, November 16, 1916) "Art Works on View Set High Standard." Gazette (Montreal) November 17, 1916. p.7. Full-text pdf
- The Joint Annual Exhibition of the RCA and the OSA: (Toronto; Montreal (Fall), April 05, 1918) "Spring Exhibit at Art Gallery. Returned Soldier Exhibits Two Works Sketched at the Front. Four Artists Overseas. Late Exhibition of R.C.A. Held Works that Usually Came to Montreal - Good Watercolors." Gazette (Montreal) April 05, 1918. p.7. Full-text pdf
- The Joint Annual Exhibition of the RCA and the OSA: (Toronto; Montreal (Fall), April 05, 1918) "War-time Note in Academy Pictures. Camouflaged Shipping the Subject of Some Historically Interesting Works. Standard Maintained. Painters Producing Fewer Works Evidenced by Showing Pictures Exhibited Last Spring in Toronto." Gazette (Montreal) November 22, 1918. p.11. Full-text pdf
- Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, March 25, 1920) "Artist's Efforts Reach High Level." Gazette (Montreal) March 26, 1920. p.6. Full-text pdf
- Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, November 18, 1920) "Art of Canadians Well Represented." Gazette (Montreal) November 19, 1920. p.9. Full-text pdf
- Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, November 18, 1920) "Royal Canadian Academy Forty-Second Exhibition." Montreal Herald November 19, 1920. p.30. Full-text pdf
- Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, April 01, 1921) "Fewer Paintings, Higher Standards. Thirty-Eighth Annual Exhibition of Art Association of Montreal. Private View Last Night." Gazette (Montreal) April 01, 1921. p.11. Full-text pdf
- Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, April 01, 1921) "Spring Exhibition at the Art Galleries." Montreal Herald April 04, 1921. p.3. Full-text pdf
- Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Toronto, November 17, 1921) Hector Charlesworth. "Impressions of the Royal Canadian Academy." Toronto Saturday Night November 26, 1921. p.5. Full-text pdf
- Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, March 21, 1922) "Exhibits Drawn From Wide Area. Growing Importance of Spring Art Exhibition More Generally Recognized." Gazette (Montreal) March 21, 1922. p.5. Full-text pdf
- Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, March 21, 1922) S. Mogan-Powell. "Vivid Portraits at Art Exhibition are Outstanding Feature." Montreal Star March 27, 1922. p.2. Full-text pdf
- Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, April 26, 1925) "Art Association's Spring Exhibition." Gazette (Montreal) April 03, 1925. p.6. Full-text pdf
- Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, March 26, 1926) "Private View Held at Art Exhibition. Committee of Selection Had to Perform Obviously Difficult Task. Many Omissions Noted." Gazette (Montreal) March 29, 1926. p.6. Full-text pdf
- Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, March 26, 1926) J. René de Cotret. "Le salon de printemps. Un grand nombre d'oeuvres qui méritent l'attention sont actuellent en exposition à la Galerie des Arts." Le Canada April 05, 1926. p.?. Full-text pdf
- Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, March 26, 1926) S. Morgan-Powell. "Spring Exhibition at Art Galleries Is an Indifferent Show." Montreal Star April 07, 1926. p.6. Full-text pdf
- Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, March 21, 1930) Lucien Desbiens. "Les expositions. Le salon du printemps 1930." Le Devoir (Montreal) March 31, 1930. p.1. Full-text pdf
