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REYNOLDS, Catherine

Born
Detroit, United States, 1784
Died
Amherstburg, Ontario, 1864
Biography synopsis
Catherine Reynolds moved to Canada from Detroit in 1796. She painted a series of Canadian scenes between 1810-1820. She was an ardent copyist of prints of European subjects. Works by Catherine Reynolds are held in the collection of the Detroit Institute of Fine Arts and in Windsor's Community Museum - François Baby House.
Media used
Painting
File & Archive locations
Art Gallery of Ontario - Edward P. Taylor Research Library and Archives
Edmonton Art Gallery, AB - Library
National Gallery of Canada, ON - Library and Archives
Winnipeg Art Gallery, MA - Clara Lander Library
Library and Archives Canada / Bibliothèque et Archives Canada, ON
Canadian Women Artists History Initiative Documentation Centre, QC
Frick Art Reference Library, NY
BIBLIOGRAPHY

Writings about
Carter, David G. The Painter and the New World. Montreal: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 1967
Collins, Jim and Glenn B. Opitz, eds. Women Artists in America: 18th Century to the Present New York: Apollo, 1980
Conde, Valérie. "Ontario's First Artist." Windsor Daily Star 25 Sept. 1945
Douglas, R. Alan. "The Paintings of Catherine Reynolds." University of Windsor Review 2.1 (Fall 1966): 57-66
Farr, Dorothy and Luckyj, Natalie. From Women's Eyes: Women Painters in Canada Kingston: Agnes Etherington Art Centre, 1975
Gossage, Carolyn. Forgotten Graces: Travel Sketchbooks of a Victoria Gentlewoman. Unionville: Varley Art Gallery of Markham, 2006
Groce, George G. and David H. Wallace. New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America, 1564-1860. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1957
Harper, J. Russell. A People's Art: Primitive, Naïve, Provincial and Folk Painting in Canada Toronto: University of Toronto, 1974
Harper, J. Russell. Early Painters and Engravers in Canada Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1970
Kobayashi, Terry and Michael Bird. A Compendium of Canadian Folk Artists Erin, Ontario: Boston Mills Press, 1985
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
McKendry, Blake. A to Z of Canadian Art: Artists and Art Terms Kingston: B. McKendry, 1997
McKendry, Blake. Dictionary of Folk Artists in Canada: From the 17th Century to the Present. Elginburg: Blake McKendry, 1988
Perkin, Norah-Jean. "Reynolds Works Now on Display." Windsor Star 26 Jul. 1975
Petteys, Chris, et al. Dictionary of Women Artists: An International Dictionary of Women Artists Born Before 1900 Boston: G. K. Hall, 1985
Robinson, Francis Waring. Catherine Reynolds (ca. 1782-1864): An Early Canadian Artist in Essex County Windsor, Ontario: Willistead Art Gallery, 1967
Robinson, Francis Waring. "Early Houses on the Detroit River and Lake Erie in Watercolors by Catherine Reynolds." Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 33.1 (1953-1954): 17-20
Schepers, Bonnie L.. "Loyalists along the Detroit River: Arts and Artefacts." Loyalist Gazette 40 (Spring 2002): 21
Tippett, Maria. By a Lady Toronto: Viking, 1992
Valle, Madelyn Della. Her Stories: Lives of Women in the Detroit River Region. Detroit, Michigan: City of Windsor and Windsor Public Library, 1993

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