Alicia Killaly
Alicia Killaly | |
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| Born | 1836 London, Ontario |
| Died | 1908 (aged 71–72) Grantham, United Kingdom |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Known for | Painting |
| Spouse | C. H. Turner |
Alicia Killaly (also called Alice Killaly[note 1], 1836-1908) was a Canadian watercolour painter. She was born in London, Ontario in 1836. She lived in Quebec City, Montreal and Toronto during the 1840s and 1850s. Killaly married Christopher H. Turner, a former British soldier, in 1871 and moved to England.[2] Killaly died in 1908 in Grantham, Lincolnshire.[2]
A watercolour from the sketchbook of an unknown artist in the collection of the Toronto Public Library is titled Camping Out No. 2: Alice Killaly Sketching in a Canoe, Sparrow Lake, Ontario. May 1867. It shows the subject alone in a canoe in a lake, mostly hidden under a large umbrella.[3]
Her work depicts outdoor scenes in Canada, such as canoe trips, frozen rivers and Niagara Falls, and she may have been a student of Cornelius Krieghoff. Her watercolour, Quebec From Across the St. Lawrence, from about 1867, is in the collection of the Royal Ontario Museum.[4] An 1868 series of chromolithographs, A Picnic at Montmorency, on the subject of a humorous winter picnic is her only known commercial venture. Copies of these lithographs are held at the National Gallery of Canada,[5] McCord Museum of Canadian History and the Royal Ontario Museum, where they were part of the 2013 exhibit, Brushing It in the Rough: Women, Art and Nineteenth Century Canada.[6] in 1871 she married C. H. Turner. [7] She is not known to have produced any artworks after her marriage.
Gallery
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A Tenting Party, circa 1860. Watercolor, in the Peter Winkworth Collection, Library and Archives Canada -
A Picnic at Montmorency - Coming down is easier but more dangerous, lithograph, 1868 -
The Horseshoe Falls, 1857 -
View of Horseshoe Falls, winter, circa 1860
Notes
- ^ The Toronto Public Library has two watercolours listed as "Killaly, Alice Margaret, 1836-1916, attributed to", which does not match the 1908 date of death of Alicia Killaly. One of them has handwritten information on the back: "by A Killaly / Later Mrs Thackwell" in one hand and "By Mrs A Kilaly / Toronto." in another hand.[1] These details also do not match Alicia Killaly. However, the dates of these two paintings as well as their medium and subject are similar to Alicia Killaly.
References
- ^ Near Toronto Archived 2018-01-03 at the Wayback Machine, Toronto Reference Library, Baldwin Collection, Accession Number: 986-6-2
- ^ a b "Killaly, Alicia". Canadian Women Artists History Initiative. Archived from the original on 8 November 2017. Retrieved 18 March 2018.
- ^ Camping Out No. 2: Alice Killaly Sketching in a Canoe, Sparrow Lake, (Gravenhurst), Ontario. Archived 2018-01-03 at the Wayback Machine, Toronto Reference Library, Baldwin Collection, Accession Number: 982-28-37
- ^ Quebec From Across the St. Lawrence, Google Arts and Culture
- ^ A Picnic to Montmorenci: Coming Down is Easier but More Dangerous, 1868 Archived 2015-07-23 at the Wayback Machine, National Gallery of Canada
- ^ Brushing It in the Rough: Women, Art and Nineteenth Century Canada Archived 2018-01-03 at the Wayback Machine, Royal Ontario Museum, August 13, 2013
- ^ Farr, Dorothy; Luckyj, Natalie (1975). From Women's Eyes: Women Painters in Canada. Kingston: Agnes Etherington Art Centre. p. 18.
- Alicia Killaly, art auction details, blouinartinfo
