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Molly Joan Lamb Bobak BIOGRAPHY
1920 Lulu Island, British Columbia - 2014 Fredericton, New Brunswick. Known for: Female figure and crowd genre painting, teaching, combat artist.
Molly Lamb Bobak (1920-). The central theme in Bobak's work have been flowers and crowds of people. Her flower paintings, mostly rendered in watercolor and washes express the fragility of her... Read full biography
Molly Lamb Bobak (1920-). The central theme in Bobak's work have been flowers and crowds of people. Her flower paintings, mostly rendered in watercolor and washes express the fragility of her subjects. Her crowd paintings, mainly rendered in oil, are impressions of gatherings, showing the artist's... Read full biography
Molly Lamb Bobak (1920-). The central theme in Bobak's work have been flowers and crowds of people. Her flower paintings, mostly rendered in watercolor and washes express the fragility of her subjects. Her crowd paintings, mainly rendered in oil, are impressions of gatherings, showing the artist's interpretation of the essence of the occasion rather than the minute details of it. She was born in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1920, the daughter of Harold Mortimer-Lamb, a mining executive,... Read full biography
Molly Lamb Bobak (1920-). The central theme in Bobak's work have been flowers and crowds of people. Her flower paintings, mostly rendered in watercolor and washes express the fragility of her subjects. Her crowd paintings, mainly rendered in oil, are impressions of gatherings, showing the artist's interpretation of the essence of the occasion rather than the minute details of it. She was born in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1920, the daughter of Harold Mortimer-Lamb, a mining executive, publisher, art critic, art collector, photographer and painter and Mary Alice Price/Williams. In 1938, she began her formal art studies at the Vancouver School of Art under Jack Shadbolt. She joined the Canadian Women's Army Corps (C.W.A.C.) in 1942 rose... Read full biography
Molly Lamb Bobak (1920-). The central theme in Bobak's work have been flowers and crowds of people. Her flower paintings, mostly rendered in watercolor and washes express the fragility of her subjects. Her crowd paintings, mainly rendered in oil, are impressions of gatherings, showing the artist's interpretation of the essence of the occasion rather than the minute details of it. She was born in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1920, the daughter of Harold Mortimer-Lamb, a mining executive, publisher, art critic, art collector, photographer and painter and Mary Alice Price/Williams. In 1938, she began her formal art studies at the Vancouver School of Art under Jack Shadbolt. She joined the Canadian Women's Army Corps (C.W.A.C.) in 1942 rose to lieutenant and became the first official female War Artist with the Canadian Army in Europe, 1945 to 194... Read full biography
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Molly Lamb Bobak (1920-)
The central theme in Bobak's work have been flowers and crowds of people. Her flower paintings, mostly rendered in watercolor and washes express the fragility of her subjects. Her crowd paintings, mainly rendered in oil, are impressions of gatherings, showing the artist's interpretation of the essence of the occasion rather than the minute details of it.
She was born in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1920, the daughter of Harold Mortimer-Lamb, a mining executive, publisher, art critic, art collector, photographer and painter and Mary Alice Price/Williams.
In 1938, she began her formal art studies at the Vancouver School of Art under Jack Shadbolt. She joined the Canadian ...But wait, there's more...
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