Painting
Dartmouth Heritage Museum
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| Nom de l'objet : | Painting |
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| Titre : | Farm in Winter |
| Catégorie de l'objet : | Art |
| Matériaux : | Paper, Watercolour |
| Numéro d'accession : | 2023.001.033 |
| Date de début de production : | 1920-01-01 |
| Date de fin de production : | 1960-12-31 |
| Description : | Small watercolour painting by Ruth Salter Wainwright, depicting a farmhouse in the middle of winter. Major discolouration in the centre of the work. Undated, signed by artist. |
| Commentaires : | Originally part of an art collection owned by Marjorie H. Lavers, an art dealer and art restorer who worked out of Halifax from 1928 to 1992. When she passed away, the donor received the majority of her collection.; Marjorie Helen Lavers (1903-1992) was born in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia to Walter G. Lavers and Louise (Bayers) Lavers. She was one of seven children, two dying in infancy. She worked at Holland & Kuhn, an art supply store and art dealers store and eventually took over the business in 1928. She worked there as the manager and an art dealer, and sold the business in 1949. She eventually left the business and continued being an art dealer at Priest & Sons, and later Hughes Owens, retiring in 1968. Afterwards she worked as the manager of the art supply store for the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD), where she was appointed a Fellow in 1973, in recognition for her service to art, art design students, and artists and designers within Halifax. She would later retire from NSCAD in 1979. She was also an honorary member of the Dartmouth Heritage Museum Society, being their first archivist, and helped to do art and frame restorations for various art pieces. She passed away in 1992. |
| Fonctions : | Ruth Salter Wainwright was born in Sydney in 1902. She studied art with Lewis and Edith Smith at the Halifax Ladies College from 1917 to 1921. In 1921 she was certified as an art teacher but it was not until the 1950s that Wainwright started teaching in her studio, a practice she continued for most of her life. She also graduated, in 1924, as a concert harpist from the Halifax Conservatory of Music. From 1930 to 1940 she played with a CBC radio orchestra located in Halifax. |
| Longueur : | 9.5cm |
| Largeur : | 14cm |
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| Ville de l'établissement : | Dartmouth |
| Province de l'établissement : | Nova Scotia |