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1857 Port Burwell, Ontario - 1938 Toronto, Ontario. Known for: Landscape, figure, interior scenes, genre and still life painting, teaching.
Mary Ella Williams Dignam WAAC (1857 – 1938) (1). An important and influential pioneering Canadian advocate for women in the arts, an educator, and a painter, Mary Ella Dignam (nee Williams) was born... Read full biography
Mary Ella Williams Dignam WAAC (1857 – 1938) (1). An important and influential pioneering Canadian advocate for women in the arts, an educator, and a painter, Mary Ella Dignam (nee Williams) was born in Port Burwell, Ontario and died in Toronto, Ontario, where she had lived since 1886. She was the... Read full biography
Mary Ella Williams Dignam WAAC (1857 – 1938) (1). An important and influential pioneering Canadian advocate for women in the arts, an educator, and a painter, Mary Ella Dignam (nee Williams) was born in Port Burwell, Ontario and died in Toronto, Ontario, where she had lived since 1886. She was the founder and first President of the Women’s Art Association of Canada*, a founder of the Women's International Art Club*, and a founder of the National Council of Women of Canada. Her paintings were... Read full biography
Mary Ella Williams Dignam WAAC (1857 – 1938) (1). An important and influential pioneering Canadian advocate for women in the arts, an educator, and a painter, Mary Ella Dignam (nee Williams) was born in Port Burwell, Ontario and died in Toronto, Ontario, where she had lived since 1886. She was the founder and first President of the Women’s Art Association of Canada*, a founder of the Women's International Art Club*, and a founder of the National Council of Women of Canada. Her paintings were exhibited regularly for over three decades with the Art Association of Montreal [now Montreal Museum of Fine Arts] and the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts*. Her works are in the permanent collections of several museums. (2). Her mediums included oils,... Read full biography
Mary Ella Williams Dignam WAAC (1857 – 1938) (1). An important and influential pioneering Canadian advocate for women in the arts, an educator, and a painter, Mary Ella Dignam (nee Williams) was born in Port Burwell, Ontario and died in Toronto, Ontario, where she had lived since 1886. She was the founder and first President of the Women’s Art Association of Canada*, a founder of the Women's International Art Club*, and a founder of the National Council of Women of Canada. Her paintings were exhibited regularly for over three decades with the Art Association of Montreal [now Montreal Museum of Fine Arts] and the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts*. Her works are in the permanent collections of several museums. (2). Her mediums included oils, watercolors and pastels. Her subjects were landscapes, still life, figures, interiors, and genre*. Her styles were Realism* (often described... Read full biography
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Mary Ella Williams Dignam WAAC (1857 – 1938) (1)
An important and influential pioneering Canadian advocate for women in the arts, an educator, and a painter, Mary Ella Dignam (nee Williams) was born in Port Burwell, Ontario and died in Toronto, Ontario, where she had lived since 1886. She was the founder and first President of the Women’s Art Association of Canada*, a founder of the Women's International Art Club*, and a founder of the National Council of Women of Canada. Her paintings were exhibited regularly for over three decades with the Art Association of Montreal [now Montreal Museum of Fine Arts] and the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts*. Her works are in the permanent collections of several museums. (2)
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