Margaret Frame
Margaret Frame | |
|---|---|
Painter | |
| Spouse |
Hazlitt Seymour Beatty
(m. 1943) |
Margaret Frame (1903 – 1985) was a Canadian painter known for her portraiture.[1]
Biography
Margaret Frame was born in 1903 in Oxford, Nova Scotia.[2] In 1906 her family moved to Regina, Saskatchewan[3] and there she studied with Inglis Sheldon-Williams and James Henderson.[1]
Continuing her education, from 1922 to 1924 Frame was in Boston where she studied at the
In 1922 Frame's was included in the 44th exhibition of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in Montreal. In 1925 she exhibited two portraits at the British Empire Exhibition in London.[1] In 1926 Frame had her first solo exhibition at the Galérie de Marsan in Paris.[2] In 1932 her portraits were included at the Salon of Women Painters and Sculptors of France.[2]
In 1943 Frame married Squadron Leader Hazlitt Seymour Beatty, R.A.F.[4]
She returned to Canada and opened a studio in Ottawa during World War II.[1]
Among Frame's subjects were George V, William Stevens Fielding, and Michael I of Romania.[1] In 1954 she painted a portrait of Margaret McCurdy who served as the "first lady" of Nova Scotia from 1947 to 1952.[4]
Frame died on December 18, 1985, in Napean, Ontario.[4]
References
- ^ a b c d e f "Margaret Frame". Saskatchewan Network for Art Collecting. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
- ^ a b c d e "Frame, Margaret". Canadian Women Artists History Initiative. Archived from the original on 8 November 2017. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
- ^ Who's who in Canada, Volume 13. International Press Limited. 1914. p. 1216. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
- ^ a b c "Portrait of Margaret McCurdy". Nova Scotia Archives. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 27 November 2017.