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Molly Lamb Bobak CM ONB RCA (née Lamb; February 25, 1920 – March 2, 2014) was a Canadian teacher, writer, printmaker and painter working in oils and watercolours. During World War II, she was the first Canadian woman artist to be sent overseas to document Canada's war effort, and in particular, the work of the Canadian Women's Army Corps (C.W.A.C), as one of Canada's war artists.
Her pictures were used to encourage Canadian women to participate in the war efforts and heavily depicted ties to third-wave feminist ideologies. [3] The pictures of Foster and their impact on Canadian women also inspired the creation of the American cultural icon "Rosie, the Riveter" in the United States of America. [4]
This is the authorized list of Official Canadian War Artists in the Second World War according to A Checklist of the War Collections of World War I, 1914-1918, and World War II, 1939-1945 by R. F. Wodehouse (National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1968).
Art at the Service of War: Canada, Art, and the Great War (1984) Breaking the Cycle, and Other Stories from a Gulf Island (1989) Making Culture: English-Canadian Institutions and the Arts before the Massey Commission (1990) By a Lady: Celebrating Three Centuries of Art by Canadian Women (1992) Between Two Cultures: A Photographer among the ...
[1] She was a member of the Canadian Group of Painters, the Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour, Canadian Society of Graphic Art, the Ontario Society of Artists, and the Royal Canadian Academy (1966). [2] Much of her art now is in the National Gallery of Canada and the Art Gallery of Ontario. [1]
Mary Riter was born in Culross, Ontario (now part of South Bruce, ON), on 7 September 1867.While there has been confusion regarding the year of her birth with scholars, curators, and archivists speculating that she was born in 1874, 1868, or 1867, Irene Gammel’s 2020 book I Can Only Paint: The Story of Battlefield Artist Mary Riter Hamilton uses Census data to document that the accurate ...
This is a partial list of women artists who were born in Canada or whose artworks are closely associated with that country. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
In 1915, Long contributed three drawings to The Canadian Magazine that provide a fresh interpretation of the First World War from a woman’s point of view, including Home on Furlough (1915), Looking at the War Pictures (1915), and Killed in Action (1915). [4] In 1933 she was elected as a full member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. [5]