Anne Savage (artist)
Anne Savage | |
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Born | Annie Douglas Savage July 27, 1896 Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
Died | March 25, 1971 Montreal, Quebec, Canada | (aged 74)
Known for | painter and art teacher |
Anne (Annie) Douglas Savage (July 27, 1896 – March 25, 1971) was a Canadian painter and art teacher known for her lyrical, rhythmic landscapes.[1] She was a founding member of the Canadian Group of Painters.
Early life
Savage was born in
Artistic career
Between 1914 and 1918, Savage studied art at the Art Association of Montreal under several instructors including
In 1921, Savage joined the
Savage retired from full-time teaching in 1953 and was named the Supervisor of Art for the Protestant School Board of Greater Montreal. She was then invited by McGill University to teach, where she ended up teaching between 1954 and 1959.[7]
Throughout her life, Savage was involved with women's rights and gender inequity. Among the groups she joined was the League for Women's Rights, Montreal's suffrage organization.[8] Curiously, in a speech in 1942, she said that she felt that women artists no longer faced gender inequality. They were equal to men except for housekeeping. Yet, as Kristina Huneault, the author of this article, points out, housekeeping is no minor matter because it takes time and energy away from art-making and reinforces the perception that women's place was in the home.[9]
Death
Savage died in Montreal in 1971 and was interred there in the Mount Royal Cemetery.
The Anne Savage Archives can be found at Montreal's
Works
- Early Settlers, c.1930
- The Wood, 1938
- Le lac le soir, Wonish, c. 1950s
- The Little Pine - Lake Wonish, n.d.
References
- ^ ISBN 2-920394-58-4.
- ^ a b c "Canadian Women Artists: Artist Database". Canadian Women Artists History Initiative. Retrieved March 3, 2015.
- ^ a b "Fonds P146 - Anne Savage fonds". Concordia University Records Management and Archives. Retrieved March 5, 2016.
- ^ Lehmann, Henry (September 14, 2002). "Two Women, Two Worlds". The Gazette, Montreal.
- ISBN 9781282810853.
- ^ "Anne Savage fonds - Archives & Special Collections Catalogue". concordia.accesstomemory.org. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
- ISBN 0-88887-853-2.
- ^ Walters, Evelyn. "The Beaver Hall Group and its Legacy". Dundurn Toronto. p. 136. Retrieved 2021-03-10.
- ^ Huneault, Kristina (2015). ""As Well as Men" The Gendering of Beaver Hall". 1920s Modernism in Montreal: The Beaver Hall Group. Jacques Des Rochers and Brian Foss (eds.). Montreal and London: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and Black Dog Publishing. p. 266. Retrieved 2021-03-10.
Further reading
- Meadowcroft, Barbara (September 12, 1992). Retrospective Exhibition: Anne Savage. Montreal, Quebec: La Galerie Walter Klinkhoff.
- Anne Savage: The Living Spirit and Her Concordia Legacy (July 9 to August 17, 2007)