Prudence (Efa Prudence) Heward - Artist Info

About Prudence (Efa Prudence) Heward

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    Prudence Heward (AKA: Efa Prudence Heward) was a painter. She was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and, except for travel and during World War I, lived there all her life. She died while visiting Los Angeles, California (1).

    Her mediums were primarily oil on canvas and oil on plywood. Works in other mediums are rare. Her subjects are landscapes, still life, nudes, portraits and figures in landscape. The locations of the landscapes are mostly around her family's summer home in Fernbank, Ontario (220 miles west of Montreal on the St. Lawrence River); however there are also paintings from rural locations in south-eastern Quebec and from her travels (see below). She is perhaps most famous for he...

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