Mary riter hamilton biography

Artist.

Born at Walkerton, Ontario on 7 September , daughter of Charity Zimmerman () and John Riter (?-?), she came to Clearwater with her family at an early age.

Mary riter hamilton biography Legacy [ edit ]. Many of her artworks like her oil painting Battlefields possess a haunting emptiness, evoking the memory of the absent soldiers. Building on the work of their late colleague Angela Davis, Young and McKinnon have written a rich biography that is deserving tribute to Mary Riter Hamilton. See also Florence E.

In , after she married Charles Wallace Hamilton (?), they moved to Port Arthur [now Thunder Bay], Ontario, where her husband was a leading merchant. His death left her independently wealthy.

She moved to Winnipeg and began painting china in Hamilton went to Europe in to study art, and for the most part she remained in Paris until , occasionally returning to Canada.

By some of her painting was exhibited at the Paris Salon. She returned to Winnipeg in to mount a major exhibition of her work. After the First World War she obtained a publisher’s commission to “reproduce the battlefields in paint,” and she remained abroad until , producing over paintings and innumerable sketches.

See full list on thecanadianencyclopedia.ca It was placed in the Industrial Bureau and attracted so many interested visitors that the board of that institution, aided and abetted by a number of public spirited lovers of art decided to start a Civic Art Gallery and School. Many artists, male and female, have been ignored for the same reason. If, as seems obvious, she was famous at one time both at home and abroad, why has she been ignored? Since then, nature has been busy covering up the wounds, and in a few years the last sign of war will have disappeared.

Her work was exhibited in Paris in and in London in She subsequently donated most of the war paintings to the Archives of Canada. In she moved to Vancouver, British Columbia where she taught art for many years.

She died at the Provincial Mental Hospital at Essondale, British Columbia on 5 April and was buried in a cemetery at Thunder Bay, Ontario.

Posthumous exhibitions of her battlefield art were mounted in Victoria in and at the University of Winnipeg in

See also:

Mary Riter Hamilton: Manitoba Artist byAngela Elizabeth Davis
Manitoba History, Number 11, Spring

“Mary Riter Hamilton: An Artist in No-Man’s Land,” by Angela Davis, The Beaver 69, no.

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No Man’s Land: The Life and Art of Mary Riter Hamilton by Kathryn Young and Sarah McKinnon, Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press,

NEW Heritage Minutes: Mary Riter Hamilton by Historica Canada, YouTube.

Sources:

Death registration, British Columbia Vital Statistics.

Dictionary of Manitoba Biography by John M.

“Jack” Bumsted, Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press,

Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.

We thank Lorna Stevens for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 5 November