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Artworks
Ethel SeathStill Life1879-1963Watercolour10 x 13 7/8 in
25.25 x 35.25 cmSoldFurther images
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signed, 'E. Seath ' (lower left)Provenance
Private collection, Westmount, Quebec
Estate of the above
In writing for Galerie Walter Klinkhoff’s Ethel Seath Retrospective Exhibition Catalogue, Roger Little noted that from an early age, the titles of Ethel Seath’s artwork suggested, “an attraction to nature as well as to homespun domesticity...The curvilinear patterns which would often characterize Ethel’s work, the bold colours and the occasionally abstracted naivete of her eye - all were evidence of a tenacious yet quiet independence ” [1]
Ethel Seath was a successful and highly trained commercial artist. She began her instruction in the 1890s at the Conseil des Arts et Manufactures under the tutelage of Robert Harris and Edmond Dyonnet. In 1896, she secured a position as a newspaper illustrator at the Montreal Witness. Later she worked at the Montreal Star. She was an exception in what was a male dominated field. Her success afforded Seath the opportunity to take art classes with William Brymner at the Art Association of Montreal, and she also joined Maurice Cullen’s plein air sketching classes in the Quebec countryside.
Through the classes at the Art Association, Seath became associated with the Beaver Hall Group artists. She was represented at the famous British Empire Exhibition at Wembley, London, in 1925 and her work was regularly featured in the Annual Spring Exhibitions at the Art Association of Montreal. She was a member of the Canadian Group of Painters and the Contemporary Arts Society.
The non-selling exhibition honouring Ethel Seath and hosted by Galerie Walter Klinkhoff in 1987 to our knowledge remains the only such exhibition dedicated exclusively to this fine artist.
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[1] Walter Klinkhoff Gallery Inc., Roger Little. Ethel Seath: 1879-1963: Retrospective Exhibition. (Montreal: Walter Klinkhoff Gallery, 1987), unpaginated.
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