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NEWTON, Lilias Torrance

Born
Montreal, Quebec, 1896
Died
Cowansville, Quebec, 1980
Biography synopsis
Lilias Torrance Newton studied at the Art Association of Montreal with William Brymner around 1914, and while there she won two scholarships. Following the First World War, she studied in London with the Russian artist Alfred Wolmark and in 1923 she went to Paris and there studied with Alexandre Jacovleff, also a Russian artist. She exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1923 and received honorable mention. She also received honorable mention at the 1925 Panama Pacific Exhibition. She was elected Associate of the Royal Canadian Academy in 1923, and became a full Academician in 1937, only the third woman to achieve this status. In 1933 she was a founding member of the Canadian Group of Painters. She was a member of the Beaver Hall Group of Painters (1920). In 1934-36 and then in 1938-40, she taught with William Holgate at the Art Association of Montreal school. She was best known as one of Canada's most prolific portraitists, and she was the first Canadian commissioned to paint a portrait of a reigning monarch, Queen Elizabeth. Her work is represented in the National Gallery of Canada, the Edmonton Museum, the Calgary Museum, the Art Gallery of Ontario, Hart House, the Montreal Museum of Fine Art, the Musée du Quebec, the War Museum in Ottawa, and elsewhere.
Media used
Painting
Education
Art Association of Montreal, 1912 - ? (under William Brymner)
Private study (under Alexandre Jacovleff, Paris)
Private study (under Alfred Wolmark, London)
Memberships
Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, Associate, 1923; Academician, 1937
Canadian Group of Painters, 1933, founding member
Beaver Hall Group
File & Archive locations
Art Gallery of Ontario - Edward P. Taylor Research Library and Archives
Yale University Library, CT
London Public Library, ON
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts / Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, QC
Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, QC - Media Centre
Frick Art Reference Library, NY
National Gallery of Canada, ON - Library and Archives
University of British Columbia - Fine Arts Library
Vancouver Art Gallery, BC - Library
Winnipeg Art Gallery, MA - Clara Lander Library
Canadian Women Artists History Initiative Documentation Centre, QC
Artexte Information Centre, QC - Documentation Centre
Hamilton Public Library, ON - Local History and Archives Department
Library and Archives Canada / Bibliothèque et Archives Canada, ON
BIBLIOGRAPHY

Writings about
"'Group of Seven' Portrait Painter at Work Here." Toronto Telegram 17 May 1930
"...Ces neuf études de pysionomie..." La Patrie (Montreal) 8 May 1935
"A Gracious Artist." Saturday Night (31 May 1930)
"À l'exposition des peintres canadiens." La Presse (Montreal) 13 Oct. 1928
"Art Association 48th Spring Show High in Interest." Gazette (Montreal) 21 Mar. 1931
"Art Association Classes to Re-Open - Edwin Holgate and Lilias Torrance Newton, A.R.C.A. to be in Charge." Montreal Star (?) Apr. 1934
"Art Association's Spring Exhibition: Private View Ushered in Showing of Representative Assemblage of Work." Gazette (Montreal) 3 Apr. 1925
"Art Exhibit Discussed: Private Showing Given Members of Windsor Association." Windsor Star 1 Dec. 1942
"Art Gallery Spring Show Juries Pick 119 Items From 1,400 Entries." Gazette (Montreal) 04 Mar. 1948
"Art Notes." Ottawa Citizen 14 Jan. 1926
"Art Works On View Set High Standard: Thirty-Eighth Annual Exhibition of Royal Canadian Academy Is Opened." Gazette (Montreal) 17 Nov. 1916
"Artists Honor Third Woman - Academy Elects Mrs. L.T. Newton to Membership." Ottawa Journal 20 Nov. 1937
"By Canadian Artists: Works of More Modern Type Excite Interest." Gazette (Montreal) 30 Apr. 1928
"Canadian Art Show Praised: Women Artists Work Previewed in Toronto." unknown 22 Mar. 1947
"Canadian Artist at Paris: Mrs. Torrance Newton, Montreal, Exhibits at Salon." Gazette (Montreal) 9 May 1923
"Canadian Group Show at Art Association: Varied Offerings Occupy Two Main Galleries." Gazette (Montreal) 8 Jan. 1944
"Canadian Group Shows Nearly 100 Paintings." Gazette (Montreal) 10 Jan. 1948
"Canadian Portrait: Portrait of Eric Brown." Star (Montreal) 10 Jan. 1934
"Canadian School is Well Represented at the Art Exhibition." Herald (Montreal) 25 Mar. 1922
"Canadian Woman in the Public Eye." Saturday Night 42.52 (12 Nov. 1927)
"Coast to Coast in Art." Canadian Art 6.4 (1947): 178
"Des artistes qui affirment de beaux dons." La Presse (Montreal) 21 Jan. 1922
"Exposition à la Galérie nationale." Le Droit (Montreal) 24 Feb. 1951
"Exposition d'art canadien à Paris." La Presse (Montreal) 6 May 1927
"Famous Canadian Pictures: Winkie by Lilias Newton." Onward 41.31 (Aug. 1931): 248
"Fewer Paintings, Higher Standards: Thirty-Eighth Annual Exhibition of Art Association of Montreal." Gazette (Montreal) 1 Apr. 1921
"Fine Arts ... Paintings Are Shown By Canadian Group." Gazette (Montreal) 6 Feb. 1943
"Fine Oil Portrait Study." Star 9 Feb. 1925
"For the third time the Produced in Canada Exhibition ..." Montrealer 1 Nov. 1937
"Foremost Canadian Woman Artist Visits City on First Trip West." Herald (Lethbridge) 30 Aug. 1946
"Get Your Portrait Now, While Prices Still Low." Financial Post 25 May 1963
"Honors Canadian Artist." Gazette (Montreal) 8 Jun. 1923
"L'ouverture du Salon des Beaux-Arts de Montreal." Le Canada 17 Nov. 1922: 8
"La première Canadienne à peindre la reine et le duc, à Buckingham Palace." La Presse (Montreal) 25 Jan. 1958
"Lawren Harris, the recent portrait of Canada's famous painter and Group of Seven leader by Lilias Torrance Newton." Saturday Night (12 Nov. 1938)
"Le 51e Salon du Printemps." La Presse (Montreal) 20 Apr. 1934
"Lilas T. Newton Shows Portraits - Montreal Painter Reveals Possibilities of Charcoal at Arts Club." Gazette (Montreal) 18 Oct. 1932
"Lilias Torrance Newton Painter of the Queen." Montrealer Feb. 1957
"Montreal Artists work is displayed: Over 50 Canvases by 18 Local Painters Are on Exhibit." Gazette (Montreal) 15 Feb. 1932
"Montreal Woman Will Paint Queen and Duke." Toronto Star 27 Sept. 1956
"Oil Paintings Now on Display Here." Times-Globe (Saint John) 2 Nov. 1943: G1
"Paintings on View are Doubly Local." Gazette (Montreal) 7 Dec. 1932
"Portrait of Sir William Clark." Ottawa Citizen 29 Sept. 1934
"Portrait Study..." Ottawa Citizen 27 Feb. 1945
"Portraits of Noted Educationalists." Gazette (Montreal) 7 Mar. 1941
"Private View Held at Art Exhibition." Gazette (Montreal) 27 Mar. 1926
"Prominent Painters Contribute to Show." Gazette (Montreal) 10 Dec. 1938
"Quelques héros de Louis Hémon en sculpture." La Presse (Montreal) 24 Mar. 1922
"Remarquable exposition de tableaux et d'études." La Presse (Montreal) 15 Dec. 1925: 23
"Showing Works by Canadian Artists." Gazette (Montreal) 5 Dec. 1925
"Some Pictures In the Spring Exhibition." Toronto Star 22 Mar. 1935
"Spring Exhibition at the Art Galleries." Montreal Herald 4 Apr. 1921
"Spring Exhibition Marked by Variety." Gazette (Montreal) 10 Mar. 1939
"The Week's Review: Some features of the Spring Exhibition." Star (Montreal) 26 Apr. 1934: 90
"Travaux intéressants exposés à l'école des Arts et des Métiers." La Patrie (Montreal) 8 Jun. 1935: 33
"Two Exhibitions At Art Gallery." Toronto Star 11 Jan. 1948
"Unique Style Marks Newton Portraits." Ottawa Journal 24 Feb. 1945
"Women's Works on Exhibit." Standard (Montreal) 2 Apr. 1949
Art Gallery of Ontario. Edwin Holgate, A.Y. Jackson, Arthur Lismer, Lilias Torrance Newton. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1940
Aylen, Marielle Barbara Desiree. Interfaces of the Portrait: Liminality and Dialogism in Canadian Women's Portraiture Between the Wars Ottawa: Carleton University, 1996
Ayre, Robert. "Art News and Reviews: Evolution In Canadian Art Principal Message of Exhibition, 56th In Art Association's History." Standard (Montreal) 25 Mar. 1939: D14
Ayre, Robert. "Canadian Group of Painters' Exhibition is Small but Good." Standard (Montreal) 14 Mar. 1942: 29
Ayre, Robert. "Canadian Group of Painters." The Canadian Forum (Toronto) 14.159 (Dec. 1933): 98-100
Ayre, Robert. "Series of Canadian Exhibitions Each Lasting About Six Weeks To Be Arranged for World's Fair." Standard 6 May 1939
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Ayre, Robert. "Vigorous Works by Montrealers on Exhibition." Montreal Daily Star 07 Apr. 1951: 24
Ballantyne, Michael. "La Femme Imagiste: The Women Painters of Quebec." Montreal Star Feb. 1965
Barker, Stacey, et al.. Outside the Lines : Women Artists and War. Ottawa, ON.: Canadian War Museum. Musée canadien de la guerre, 2024.
Bell, H. Poynter. "The Fifty-First Exhibition of the Royal Canadian Academy." Journal, Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (Jan. 1930): 29-33
Bertrand, Magdeleine. Les Femmes artistes du Québec de 1875 à 1925 Montreal: Université de Montréal, 1990
Boutilier, Alicia Anna, et al. A Vital Force: The Canadian Group of Painters Kingston, Ontario: Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen's University, 2013
Boutilier, Alicia Anna, et al. Inspirational : The Collection of H.S. Southam Hamilton, Ontario: Art Gallery of Hamilton, 2009
Bridle, Augustus. "Pictures! Pictures! Who'll Come an' Buy?" Toronto Daily Star 16 Nov. 1921
Brocking, L. W. "A Discerning Tribute." Ottawa Evening Citizen 18 Oct. 1941
Burgoyne, George. "Portraits by Lilias T. Newton, R.C.A. Form Interesting Exhibition." Gazette (Montreal) 28 Oct. 1939
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Chauvin, Jean. "L'influence de la peinture française sur la peinture canadienne." La Revue Populaire (Aug. 1937): 5, 50-1.
Couëlle, Jennifer. "De la méditation contemplative au portrait." Le Devoir (Montreal) 16 Sept. 1995: D11
Crawford, Lenore. "Lilias Newton Commentator on Canvas." London Evening Free Press 27 Sept. 1958
Dagg, Anne Innis. "What Happens to Women's Art?" Globe and Mail (Toronto) 4 Aug. 1984
Daniel, Pierre. "Pochades de Clarence Gagnon au Arts Club." La Presse (Montreal) 6 Feb. 1943
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Duncan, Ann. "Portrait of the artist: Klinkhoff finds another undeservedly neglected artist." Gazette (Montreal) 9 Sept. 1995: I8
E.W.H. "Portraits by Lilias Newton Seen in Important Exhibition." Ottawa Citizen 24 Feb. 1945
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Gerwin, Martin. "Painter Prefers Restricted Field." Calgary Herald 30 Aug. 1961
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London Public Library and Art Museum. Master Canadian Painters and Sculptors London, Ontario: 1963
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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
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
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
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, April 01, 1921) S. Morgan-Powell.  "Portraits Are Feature of the Art Exhibition."  Montreal Star  April 05, 1921.  p.21.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, April 01, 1921) "National Gallery Buys Eight Works."  Gazette (Montreal)  April 22, 1921.  p.8..   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, April 01, 1921) "Montreal"  American Art News  May 07, 1921.  19.30: p.9.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Toronto, November 17, 1921) Augustus Bridle.  "Pictures! Pictures! Who'll Come An' Buy? 1921 Exhibition of Royal Canadian Academy Ready for Varnishing Day."  Toronto Star  November 16, 1921.  p.4.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Toronto, November 17, 1921) "Progress of Canadian Art Splendidly Demonstrated at Annual Academy Show."  Globe and Mail (Toronto)  November 18, 1921.  p.13.   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) "Quelques heros de Louis Hemon en sculpture. Maria Chapdelaine, son père et sa mère figurent au Salon des Artistes. Oeuvres de Suzor Cote."  La Presse (Montreal)  March 24, 1922.  p.12.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, March 21, 1922) "Canadian School is Well Represented at the Art Exhibition."  Montreal Herald  March 25, 1922.  p.10.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, March 21, 1922) S. Morgan-Powell.  "A Final Glance Around the Art Exhibition Here. II."  Montreal Daily Star  April 12, 1922.  p.6.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, November 16, 1922) "L'ouverture du salon des beaux-arts de Montreal. Une grande foule assiste hier soir au vernissage à l'Académie Royale des Arts. Beaucoup d'ouvres de mérite et de rare chef-d'oeuvre."  Le Canada (Montreal)  November 17, 1922.  p.8.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, November 16, 1922) "Au salon de nos artistes. Etudes sur quelques toiles."  La Presse  November 25, 1922.  p.2.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, November 16, 1922) "Montreal"  American Art News  December 16, 1922.  21.10: p.8.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Toronto, November 22, 1923) "Two Montrealers Elected by R.C.A.. D.H. MacFarlane and Lilias T. Newton, Associates of Royal Canadian Academy. Hamilton Man Honored. J.S. Gordon Becomes A.R.C.A. - Awards in Mural Painting Competition - R.C.A. Officers are Re-elected"  Gazette (Montreal)  November 26, 1923.  p.9.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Ottawa, November 20, 1924) "Royal Canadian Academy Opens at the National Gallery Here."  Ottawa Citizen  November 21, 1924.  p.5.   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
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, November 24, 1927) J. Rene de Cotret.  "Le salon annuel de l'A.R.C.A. Il est fort intéressant par le nombre et la variété des oeuvres exposées. L'hiver Canadien. Clarence Gagnon, F.S. Coburn et quelques autres le mettent fort en honneur."  Le Canada (Montreal)  November 25, 1927.  p.4.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, November 24, 1927) S. Morgan-Powell.  "Forty-Ninth Annual R.C.A. Exhibition at Art Galleries Here."  Montreal Star  November 25, 1927.  p.8.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, November 24, 1927) "R.C.A. Exhibition Nearing Jubilee. Much Meritorious Work Shown, but Younger Painters Tend to Shallowness and Emptiness."  Gazette (Montreal)  November 25, 1927.  p.7.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, November 24, 1927) Albert Laberge.  "Appréciation de quelques toiles du Salon des artistes Canadiens."  La Presse (Montreal)  December 03, 1927.  p.52.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, November 24, 1927) "The Royal Academy of Arts at Montreal. Stylists and Conventionalists Draw Contradictory Opinions."  Canadian Homes and Gardens  January 1928.  5:1: pp.64,66.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, November 21, 1929) "R.C.A. Show Opened with Private View. Fifty-first Annual Exhibition Housed in Art Association Galleries."  Gazette (Montreal)  November 22, 1929.  p.18.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, November 21, 1929) "Le salon d'automne."  Revue Populaire  January 1930.  23.1: PP.7-10.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, November 21, 1929) A. V. Thomson.  "The Academy Show."  Canadian Forum  January 1930.  pp.128-130.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Toronto, November 1932) "New Names on Roster of Artists Whose Work Academy Has Accepted. Fifty-third Annual Exhibition Royal Canadian Academy Opened- Two Hundred Canvases."  Evening Telegram (Toronto)  November 05, 1932.  p.14.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Toronto, November 1932) Guy E. Rhodes.  "Figure Painters Steal Show at Exhibition of Canadian Arts Academy."  Winnipeg Free Press  November 05, 1932.  p.8.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, November 1933) "Many Artists from Toronto in Royal Academy Showing."  Evening Telegram (Toronto)  November 17, 1933.  p.4.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, November 1933) "Governor-General Opens Annual Art Exhibition. His Excellency Recalls Tradition of Predecessors-Stresses Art's Part in Renaissance of National Taste."  Montreal Star  November 17, 1933.  p.20.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, November 1933) H. Rooney Pelletier.  "Better Technique Noted at R.C.A. Arts Display."  Ottawa Citizen  November 17, 1933.  p.17.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, November 1933) "L'Academie Royale Canadienne des Arts."  Le Devoir (Montreal)  November 23, 1933.  p.2.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, November 1933) "Art Gallery is Needed. Royal Canadian Academy for 1933 has Notable Pictures."  Windsor Star  December 14, 1933.  p.18.   Full-text pdf
Ontario Society of Artists Annual Exhibition: (Toronto, March 1934) Lucy Van Gogh.  "Art World."  Toronto Saturday Night  March 10, 1934.  p.9.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, April 15, 1934) "Art Association Spring Exhibition Opens at Gallery. Landscapes Predominate- Fine Work by Local Artists."  Montreal Herald  April 20, 1934.  p.12.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, April 15, 1934) "Fifty-First Spring Exhibition of the Art Association."  Montreal Star  April 20, 1934.  p.15.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, April 15, 1934) Reynald.  "Le 51e salon de printemps. Morte-saison pour les nôtres."  La Presse (Montreal)  April 20, 1934.  p.29.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, April 15, 1934) "Art Association Spring Show Opens. Private View Inaugurates Exhibition Containing Over Five Hundred Works."  Gazette (Montreal)  April 20, 1934.  p.17.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, March 21, 1935) "Spring Exhibition of Art Association Opened on Thursday."  Montreal Star  March 22, 1935.  p.17.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, March 21, 1935) "Nearly 500 Works at Spring Exhibit. Variety in Show at Galleries of Art Association of Montreal. 1,080 Items Submitted. Judges Reveal Open Minds and 52nd Annual Contains Much to Meet Differing Tastes."  Gazette (Montreal)  March 22, 1935.  p.3.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, March 21, 1935) "Some Pictures in the Spring Exhibition."  Montreal Star  March 27, 1935.  p.22.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition.: (Montreal, November 21, 1935) "The Fifty-Sixth Exhibition of the Canadian Academy."  Montreal Star  November 22, 1935.  p.13.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition.: (Montreal, November 21, 1935) Reynald.  "Le 56e Salon de l'Académie. A défaut de révéler des tendances neuves, le Salon garde une allure distinguée et une belle tenue d'ensemble. Plus de "bon ton" que de vitalité. Maints portraits."  La Presse (Montreal)  November 22, 1935.  p.19.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition.: (Montreal, November 21, 1935) "Art Gallery Scene of R.C.A. Exhibition. Paintings and Other Works from Various Canadian Points Total 444. Much Good Portraiture."  Gazette (Montreal)  November 23, 1935.  p.19.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition.: (Montreal, November 21, 1935) H. Poynter Bell.  "The Fifty-Sixth Annual Exhibition of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts."  Royal Architectural Institute of Canada  December 1935.  pp.195-198, 202.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, March 18, 1937) "The Spring Exhibition of the Art Association."  Montreal Star  March 19, 1937.  p.17.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, March 18, 1937) "Nearly 500 Works at Spring Exhibit. Art Association's 54th Annual Show Opens with Private Views. Judges Open-Minded."  Gazette (Montreal)  March 19, 1937.  p.13,17.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, March 18, 1937) McInnis, G. Campbell.  "World of Art."  Saturday Night  March 27, 1937.  p.27.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, November 18, 1937) "Royal Canadian Academy Show is Opened at Art Association. Portraiture Represented by Good Examples and Landscapes as Usual Predominate."  Gazette (Montreal)  November 19, 1937.  p.12.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, November 18, 1937) Lucien Desbiens.  "Les expositions. Le Salon de l'Académie."  Le Devoir (Montreal)  November 26, 1937.  p.2.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, November 18, 1937) McInnes, Graham.  "World of Art."  Saturday Night  November 27, 1937.  p.28.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, 1939) Henri Girard..  "La vie artistique. Le salon du printemps."  Le Canada (Montreal)  March 15, 1939.  p.2.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, 1939) Robert Ayre.  "Evolution In Canadian Art Principle Message of Exhibition. 56th In Art Association's History."  Standard (Montreal)  March 18, 1939.  p.20.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, 1939) "Sunday Marks Close Of Spring Exhibition. Over 10,000 Attended 56th Annual Show on Three Sunday Afternoons."  Gazette (Montreal)  April 01, 1939.  p.5.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, March 15, 1940) "Art Association Opens 57th Spring Exhibit. Notable Feature of Display Is Unusually Large Proportion Of Portraits or Portrait Studies."  Montreal Star  March 21, 1940.  p.19.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (, October 11, 1940) Graham McInnes.  "A Great Little Show."  Toronto Saturday Night  October 26, 1940.  p.26.   Full-text pdf

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