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1890 Dresden, Ontario, Canada - 1967 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Known for: Native Canadian portrait, coastal and mountain landscape painting.
Mildred Valley Thornton, (née Stinson) was born in Dresden, Ontario. She studied at Olivet College, Michigan (1910); under J. W. Beatty [see AskART] and George Reid [see AskART] at the Ontario... Read full biography
Mildred Valley Thornton, (née Stinson) was born in Dresden, Ontario. She studied at Olivet College, Michigan (1910); under J. W. Beatty [see AskART] and George Reid [see AskART] at the Ontario College of Art, Toronto (1910); and at the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (1910). Working in... Read full biography
Mildred Valley Thornton, (née Stinson) was born in Dresden, Ontario. She studied at Olivet College, Michigan (1910); under J. W. Beatty [see AskART] and George Reid [see AskART] at the Ontario College of Art, Toronto (1910); and at the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (1910). Working in oil and watercolour, she is known for her bold colourful native portraits, and prairie and west coast landscape with mountains and coastal scenes. Her subjects include native ceremonies and culture,... Read full biography
Mildred Valley Thornton, (née Stinson) was born in Dresden, Ontario. She studied at Olivet College, Michigan (1910); under J. W. Beatty [see AskART] and George Reid [see AskART] at the Ontario College of Art, Toronto (1910); and at the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (1910). Working in oil and watercolour, she is known for her bold colourful native portraits, and prairie and west coast landscape with mountains and coastal scenes. Her subjects include native ceremonies and culture, totem poles, and native encampments. She painted the Cree, Assiniboine, Blackfoot, Blood, Piegan, Sarcee, Sioux, Stoney and Saulteaux on reserves in Saskatchewan; and the Haida, Tsimshian, Salish, Kwakiutl and Shuswap in British Columbia. She wrote... Read full biography
Mildred Valley Thornton, (née Stinson) was born in Dresden, Ontario. She studied at Olivet College, Michigan (1910); under J. W. Beatty [see AskART] and George Reid [see AskART] at the Ontario College of Art, Toronto (1910); and at the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (1910). Working in oil and watercolour, she is known for her bold colourful native portraits, and prairie and west coast landscape with mountains and coastal scenes. Her subjects include native ceremonies and culture, totem poles, and native encampments. She painted the Cree, Assiniboine, Blackfoot, Blood, Piegan, Sarcee, Sioux, Stoney and Saulteaux on reserves in Saskatchewan; and the Haida, Tsimshian, Salish, Kwakiutl and Shuswap in British Columbia. She wrote two books which combined her native portraits with her personal experiences Indian Lives and Legends (1966) an... Read full biography
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Art Method
- •Easel Painting
Art Media
Art Style
- •Sophisticated Naive, Primitive
Art Subject
- •Coastal View, Shoreline, Seaside
- •Eskimo, Inuit Culture: Genre and Figure
- •Indians, Native Americans
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Mountain Views, Mountainscapes
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Totem Poles, Haida First Nations Culture
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Canada
Art Association
- •Royal Society of British Artists, Elected Member
Art Teacher
- •George Agnew Reid
- •John William Beatty
Art School
- •Ontario College of Art and Design (Toronto), Student
- •School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Student
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
Added Description
- •Art Educator:Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
Exhibition of Art Association
- •Art Association of Montreal/Montreal Museum of Fine Art
- •Royal Canadian Academy of Arts
Exhibition of Museum
- •Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
- •Vancouver Art Gallery