Nora Frances Elizabeth Collyer (AKA: Nora Collyer) was a painter and art educator. She was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada where, other than for travel, she lived her entire life and died. Her... Read full biography
Nora Frances Elizabeth Collyer (AKA: Nora Collyer) was a painter and art educator. She was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada where, other than for travel, she lived her entire life and died. Her primary mediums are oil on canvas and oil on board. Works in any medium other than oil are rare, none are... Read full biography
Nora Frances Elizabeth Collyer (AKA: Nora Collyer) was a painter and art educator. She was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada where, other than for travel, she lived her entire life and died. Her primary mediums are oil on canvas and oil on board. Works in any medium other than oil are rare, none are recorded by AskART as having been sold at auction (or by any other sources, checked by the author, going back over 25 years). However, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts has a drawing by her in its... Read full biography
Nora Frances Elizabeth Collyer (AKA: Nora Collyer) was a painter and art educator. She was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada where, other than for travel, she lived her entire life and died. Her primary mediums are oil on canvas and oil on board. Works in any medium other than oil are rare, none are recorded by AskART as having been sold at auction (or by any other sources, checked by the author, going back over 25 years). However, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts has a drawing by her in its collection, one assumes there must be more given the fact she was a drawing teacher. Her subjects are landscapes, buildings in landscapes, villages, still life, riverscapes and flowers. Figures, human or animal, are also rare or nonexistent in her... Read full biography
Nora Frances Elizabeth Collyer (AKA: Nora Collyer) was a painter and art educator. She was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada where, other than for travel, she lived her entire life and died. Her primary mediums are oil on canvas and oil on board. Works in any medium other than oil are rare, none are recorded by AskART as having been sold at auction (or by any other sources, checked by the author, going back over 25 years). However, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts has a drawing by her in its collection, one assumes there must be more given the fact she was a drawing teacher. Her subjects are landscapes, buildings in landscapes, villages, still life, riverscapes and flowers. Figures, human or animal, are also rare or nonexistent in her paintings. The landscape locations are in south-eastern Quebec and Nova Scotia. Her style is Fauvism* and P... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (7)
Publications based on askART research. List may not be comprehensive.
The Women of Beaver Hall: Canadian Modernist Painters
2005
Walters, Evelyn
192 pages (color)
The Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction
2001
Westbridge, Anthony R. and Diana L. Bodnar
622 pages
Painting Friends: The Beaver Hall Women Painters
1999
Meadowcroft, Barbara
240 pages (color)
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts-Spring Exhibitions 1880-1970 (Formerly Art Association of Montreal)
1988
McMann, Evelyn de Rostaing
417 pages
Canadian Painting in the Thirties (National Gallery of Canada Exhibition Catalogue) (Exhibition catalog)
1975
Hill, Charles C
223 pages (color)
A Dictionary of Canadian Artists (8 Volumes)
1974
MacDonald, Colin, S.
3,667 pages
Catalogue of an Exhibition of Paintings by the 'Canadian Group of Painters'