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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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Keywords (40)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
Art Style
- •Impressionism, Impressionist
- •Realist, Representational, Naturalist Style
Art Subject
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •Interior Scenes
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Snowscene, Winter Landscape
- •Still Life
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Canada Before 1900
- •England, Great Britain Before 1900, London
- •Holland/Netherlands
- •Italy
Art Association
- •Women's Art Association of Canada, Women's Art Club
- •Women's International Art Club
Art Teacher
- •John Griffiths
- •Kenyon Cox
- •Luc-Olivier Merson
- •Raphael Collin
- •William Lees Judson
- •William Merritt Chase
Art School
- •Art Students League of New York, Student
- •Associated Artists School of Art and Design, Toronto, Student
- •Western School of Art and Design, London, Ontario, Student
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 19th Century, After Civil War
Added Description
- •Art Educator:Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
- •Snowscene Specialty
Notable Commercial Gallery Representation, Pre 21s
- •Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris
- •J. Merrit Malloney's
- •Roberts Gallery, Toronto
Exhibition/Expo: Regional/National/International
- •Toronto Industrial Exhibitions
- •World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1892-1893
Exhibition of Art Association
- •Art Association of Montreal/Montreal Museum of Fine Art
- •Ontario Society of Artists-
- •Royal Canadian Academy of Arts
- •Women's Art Association of Canada, Women's Art Club-