“Abstraction was too empty for me; it didn't say anything to me.”- Myfanwy Pavelic . Myfanwy Pavelic was one of Canada’s most renowned portraitists. Her portraits and paintings document succeeding... Read full biography
“Abstraction was too empty for me; it didn't say anything to me.”- Myfanwy Pavelic . Myfanwy Pavelic was one of Canada’s most renowned portraitists. Her portraits and paintings document succeeding generations of artists, musicians, composers and statesmen, from Yehudi Menuhin to Pierre Trudeau. Her... Read full biography
“Abstraction was too empty for me; it didn't say anything to me.”- Myfanwy Pavelic . Myfanwy Pavelic was one of Canada’s most renowned portraitists. Her portraits and paintings document succeeding generations of artists, musicians, composers and statesmen, from Yehudi Menuhin to Pierre Trudeau. Her work has been exhibited from Victoria, British Columbia to the National Gallery in London, England. Myfanwy Pavelic, born Spencer, was born in Victoria, BC, in 1916. At the age of six, she met the... Read full biography
“Abstraction was too empty for me; it didn't say anything to me.”- Myfanwy Pavelic . Myfanwy Pavelic was one of Canada’s most renowned portraitists. Her portraits and paintings document succeeding generations of artists, musicians, composers and statesmen, from Yehudi Menuhin to Pierre Trudeau. Her work has been exhibited from Victoria, British Columbia to the National Gallery in London, England. Myfanwy Pavelic, born Spencer, was born in Victoria, BC, in 1916. At the age of six, she met the influential artist, Emily Carr, who mentored her and arranged a show of her drawings at Carr’s Peoples’ Gallery at the age of fifteen. The two artists corresponded until Carr’s death in 1945. Pavelic also had a love of music, and in 1932, began formal... Read full biography
“Abstraction was too empty for me; it didn't say anything to me.”- Myfanwy Pavelic . Myfanwy Pavelic was one of Canada’s most renowned portraitists. Her portraits and paintings document succeeding generations of artists, musicians, composers and statesmen, from Yehudi Menuhin to Pierre Trudeau. Her work has been exhibited from Victoria, British Columbia to the National Gallery in London, England. Myfanwy Pavelic, born Spencer, was born in Victoria, BC, in 1916. At the age of six, she met the influential artist, Emily Carr, who mentored her and arranged a show of her drawings at Carr’s Peoples’ Gallery at the age of fifteen. The two artists corresponded until Carr’s death in 1945. Pavelic also had a love of music, and in 1932, began formal music education in Montreal and later at the University of British Columb... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (8)
Publications based on askART research. List may not be comprehensive.
Convergence/Divergence: Landscape and Identity on the West Coast (Exhibition catalog)
2011
Riedel, Caroline
28 pages (color)
Visions into Reality: Art Gallery of Greater Victoria Early Years, 1951-1973 (Art Gallery of Greater Victoria)
2009
Hughes, Mary Jo; Michael Morris and Barry Till
128 pages (color)
Western Lights: Fourteen Distinctive British Columbians
1996
Birnie, Lisa Hobbs; Anthony Jenkins, Illustration
146 pages
A Passion for Art: The Art and Dynamics of the Limners
1996
Bovey, Patricia E.
106 pages (color)
Art in Victoria: 1960-1986 (Art Gallery of Greater Victoria) (Exhibition catalog)
1986
Tuele, Nicolas; Liane Davison
200 pages (color)
Contemporary Works on Paper by B.C. Artists (Traveling Exhibition) (Exhibition catalog)
1978
Graham, Colin
36 pages (color)
B.C. Artists' Tribute to Colin Graham (Art Gallery of Greater Victoria)