Margaret Frame
Born1903 (1903)
Oxford, Nova Scotia, Canada
DiedDecember 18, 1985(1985-12-18) (aged 81–82)
Napean, Ontario, Canada
Known forPainter
Spouse
Hazlitt Seymour Beatty
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(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 Museum of Fine Arts.[2] There she was encouraged by John Singer Sargent and Philip Leslie Hale.[1] Frame then studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris for four years.[2]

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

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Margaret Frame". Saskatchewan Network for Art Collecting. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Frame, Margaret". Canadian Women Artists History Initiative. Archived from the original on 8 November 2017. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
  3. ↑ Who's who in Canada, Volume 13. International Press Limited. 1914. p. 1216. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
  4. 1 2 3 "Portrait of Margaret McCurdy". Nova Scotia Archives. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 27 November 2017.
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