About Alice Des Clayes

  • Biography

    The following information is from the Canadian Women Artists History Initiative, http://cwahi.concordia.ca/sources/artists/displayArtist.php?ID_artist=101


    ALICE DES CLAYES

    Born: Aberdeen Grampian, Scotland, 1890 Died: England?, 1968
    Biography synopsis
    Best known for her animal and rural genre scenes, the youngest of the Des Clayes sisters came to Montreal in 1914, after studying at the Bushey School of Art and the Newland School of Art in England. A regular exhibitor in the Royal Canadian Academy and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts spring shows between 1914 and 1940, Alice was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy in 1920.

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