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'''Prudence Heward''' (July 5, 1896 – March 19, 1947)<ref name="Ferrari">Ferrari, Prudence. "Prudence Heward: Painting at Home." (2001). In ''Framing Our Past: Canadian Women's History in the Twentieth Century,'' S.A. Cook, L.R. McLean, and K. O'Rourke, eds. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press. p. 129-133.</ref> was one of Canada`s leading figure painters. She was principally known for "brilliant acid colours, sculptural treatment, and an intense brooding quality".<ref>[http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/en/article/prudence-heward/ The Canadian Encyclopedia]</ref> She was a member of the [[Beaver Hall Group]] and a co-founder of the [[Canadian Group of Painters]] and the [[Contemporary Arts Society]].<ref>[http://cwahi.concordia.ca/sources/artists/nameSearch.php?artist=prudence+heward Canadian Women Artists History Initiative]</ref>
'''Prudence Heward''' (July 2, 1896 – March 19, 1947)<ref name="Ferrari">Ferrari, Prudence. "Prudence Heward: Painting at Home." (2001). In ''Framing Our Past: Canadian Women's History in the Twentieth Century,'' S.A. Cook, L.R. McLean, and K. O'Rourke, eds. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press. p. 129-133.</ref> was a Canadian figure painter, known for using acidic colour, a sculptural treatment, and giving an intense brooding quality to her subjects.<ref>[https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/prudence-heward The Canadian Encyclopedia]</ref> She was a charter member of the [[Canadian Group of Painters]], the [[Contemporary Arts Society]] and the [[Federation of Canadian Artists]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://cwahi.concordia.ca/sources/artists/nameSearch.php?artist=prudence+heward|title=Canadian Women Artists History Initiative : Artist Database : Artists : HEWARD, Prudence|website=cwahi.concordia.ca}}</ref> Although she did not show her work with the [[Beaver Hall Group]], she was allied with many of its artists in her aesthetic aims and through friendships.


==Biography==
==Biography==
Born '''Efa Prudence Heward''' in [[Montreal]], [[Quebec]], Canada into a well-to-do family, Heward was the sixth of eight children and was educated at private schools. She showed an interest in art at a young age, possibly encouraged by her artistically-inclined mother and sister Dorothy, and started drawing lessons at age twelve at the [[Art Association of Montreal]] school with [[William Brymner]] and [[Maurice Galbraith Cullen|Maurice Cullen]].<ref>[http://www.gallery.ca/en/see/collections/artist.php?iartistid=2427 National Gallery of Canada]</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/femmes/030001-1162-e.html |title=Library and Archives Canada |access-date=2014-02-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180220212317/https://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/femmes/030001-1162-e.html |archive-date=2018-02-20 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
Born '''Efa Prudence Heward''' in [[Montreal]], Heward was the sixth of eight children and was educated at private schools. She showed an interest in art at a young age, possibly encouraged by her artistically-inclined mother and sister Dorothy, and started drawing lessons at age twelve at the [[Art Association of Montreal]] school with [[William Brymner]] and [[Maurice Galbraith Cullen|Maurice Cullen]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.gallery.ca/en/see/collections/artist.php?iartistid=2427|title=National Gallery of Canada}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/femmes/030001-1162-e.html |title=Library and Archives Canada |access-date=2014-02-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180220212317/https://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/femmes/030001-1162-e.html |archive-date=2018-02-20 |url-status=dead }}</ref>


During [[World War I]], Heward lived in [[England]] where her brothers served in the [[Canadian Army]] while she served as a volunteer with the [[Red Cross]]. Returning to Canada at war's end, she continued her painting and joined the [[Beaver Hall Hill Group]]. In 1924 her works were given their first public showing at the [[Royal Canadian Academy of Arts]] in [[Toronto]], [[Ontario]]. However, it was still an era when women artists were given little credibility and it wasn't until 1932 that Heward's first solo exhibition came at the Scott Gallery in Montreal.
During [[World War I]], Heward lived in [[England]] where her brothers served in the [[Canadian Army]] while she served as a volunteer with the [[Red Cross]]. Returning to Canada at war's end, she continued her painting, studying at the [[Art Association of Montreal]]. As a student in the advanced class, in 1924, she won the Women's Art Society Prize for painting and her work was given its first public showing at the [[Royal Canadian Academy of Arts]] in [[Toronto]], [[Ontario]]. However, it was still an era when women artists were given little credibility and it wasn't until 1932 that Heward's first solo exhibition came at the W. Scott & Sons Gallery in Montreal.


Wanting to refine her skills, and drawn to the great gathering of creative genius in the [[Montparnasse Quarter]] of [[Paris, France]], between 1925 and 1926 Prudence Heward lived and painted in Paris. While studying at the [[Académie Colarossi]], she frequented Le Dome Café in Montparnasse, the favorite haunt of [[North America]]n writers and artists and the place where Canadian writer [[Morley Callaghan]] came with his friends [[Ernest Hemingway]] and [[F. Scott Fitzgerald]].
Wanting to refine her skills, and drawn to the great gathering of creative genius in the [[Montparnasse Quarter]] of [[Paris, France]], between 1925 and 1926 Prudence Heward lived and painted in Paris. While studying at the [[Académie Colarossi]], she frequented Le Dome Café in Montparnasse, the favorite haunt of [[North America]]n writers and artists and the place where Canadian writer [[Morley Callaghan]] came with his friends [[Ernest Hemingway]] and [[F. Scott Fitzgerald]]. In 1929, in Paris, Heward met [[Ontario]] painter [[Isabel McLaughlin]] with whom she became friends<ref name="Ferrari" /> and upon her return to Canada, would join with her and other artists on nature painting trips. In the same year 1929 her career got a major boost when her painting, ''Girl on a Hill'', won the top prize in the [[Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon|Governor General Willingdon]] competition organized by the [[National Gallery of Canada]].<ref>{{Cite book|title = The women of Beaver Hall : Canadian modernist painters|url = https://archive.org/details/womenofbeaverhal00walt|url-access = registration|last = Walters|first = Evelyn|publisher = Dundurn Press|year = 2005|isbn = 9781282810853|location = Toronto|pages = [https://archive.org/details/womenofbeaverhal00walt/page/124 124]}}</ref>

While in Paris, Heward met [[Ontario]] painter [[Isabel McLaughlin]] with whom she became friends and upon her return to Canada, would join with her and other artists on nature painting trips. In 1929 her career got a major boost when her painting, ''Girl on a Hill'', won the top prize in the [[Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon|Governor General Willingdon]] competition organized by the [[National Gallery of Canada]].<ref>{{Cite book|title = The women of Beaver Hall : Canadian modernist painters|url = https://archive.org/details/womenofbeaverhal00walt|url-access = registration|last = Walters|first = Evelyn|publisher = Dundurn Press|year = 2005|isbn = 9781282810853|location = Toronto|pages = [https://archive.org/details/womenofbeaverhal00walt/page/124 124]}}</ref>


She was invited to exhibit with the [[Group of Seven (artists)|Group of Seven]] and through it became friends with [[A. Y. Jackson]] with whom she would go on sketching excursions along the [[Saint Lawrence River]]. She did a number of landscapes, with a particular attachment for Quebec's [[Eastern Townships]].
She was invited to exhibit with the [[Group of Seven (artists)|Group of Seven]] and through it became friends with [[A. Y. Jackson]] with whom she would go on sketching excursions along the [[Saint Lawrence River]]. She did a number of landscapes, with a particular attachment for Quebec's [[Eastern Townships]].


She joined the executive committee of The Atelier: A School of Drawing Painting Sculpture in 1931.<ref name=":0">{{cite book|url=https://www.aci-iac.ca/art-books/prudence-heward|title=Prudence Heward: Life & Work|last1=Skelly|first1=Julia|publisher=Art Canada Institute|year=2015|isbn=9781487100698|language=en|access-date=11 March 2017}}</ref> During the Second World War she designed war posters.<ref name=":0" /> In 1933, Prudence Heward co-founded the [[Canadian Group of Painters]],<ref>{{cite book|last1=Walters|first1=Evelyn|title=The women of Beaver Hall Canadian modernist painters|date=2005|publisher=Dundurn Press|location=Toronto [Ont.]|isbn=1282810855|page=18}}</ref> but her struggle with [[asthma]] and other health problems eventually slowed her down.<ref>{{Cite thesis|url=http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/976414/|title=Challenging the status quo: Prudence Heward's portrayals of Canadian women from the 1920s to the 1940s|last=Powell|first=Grace|publisher=Concordia University|year=2008|location=Montreal|pages=105|type=masters}}</ref> A 1939 automobile accident curtailed her abilities further but she still produced some outstanding portraits until 1945 when her health had deteriorated to the point where she had to give up painting. She died two years later, while seeking medical treatment in [[Los Angeles]], [[California]].<ref name="Ferrari" />
She joined the executive committee of "The Atelier: A School of Drawing Painting Sculpture" in 1931.<ref name=":0">{{cite book|url=https://www.aci-iac.ca/art-books/prudence-heward|title=Prudence Heward: Life & Work|last1=Skelly|first1=Julia|publisher=Art Canada Institute|year=2015|isbn=9781487100698|language=en|access-date=11 March 2017}}</ref> During the Second World War she designed war posters.<ref name=":0" /> In 1933, Prudence Heward was a charter member of the [[Canadian Group of Painters]],<ref>{{cite book|last1=Walters|first1=Evelyn|title=The women of Beaver Hall Canadian modernist painters|date=2005|publisher=Dundurn Press|location=Toronto [Ont.]|isbn=1282810855|page=18}}</ref> but her struggle with [[asthma]] and other health problems eventually slowed her down.<ref>{{Cite thesis|url=http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/976414/|title=Challenging the status quo: Prudence Heward's portrayals of Canadian women from the 1920s to the 1940s|last=Powell|first=Grace|publisher=Concordia University|year=2008|location=Montreal|pages=105|type=masters}}</ref> A 1939 automobile accident curtailed her abilities further but she still produced some outstanding portraits until 1945 when her health had deteriorated to the point where she had to give up painting. She died two years later, while seeking medical treatment in [[Los Angeles]], [[California]].<ref name="Ferrari" />


==Works==
==Work==
[[File:Immigrantes - Prudence Heward.jpg|alt= The Immigrants, Prudence Heward, 1929, Private Collection, Toronto|thumb| The Immigrants, Prudence Heward, 1929, Private Collection, Toronto]]
[[File:Immigrantes - Prudence Heward.jpg|alt= The Immigrants, Prudence Heward, 1929, Private Collection, Toronto|thumb|''The Immigrants'', Prudence Heward, 1929, Private Collection, Toronto]]
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Though Heward also painted landscapes and still lifes, she was primarily a painter of human subjects. As Julia Skelly points out in Prudence Heward: Life & Work, Heward preferred the term “figures” to portraits, and most of her figurative paintings are of women who often return the viewer’s gaze, and who are "realistically rendered rather than unrealistically idealized."<ref name=":1">{{cite web | url= http://www.aci-iac.ca/prudence-heward/technique-and-style | title=Prudence Heward: Life & Work | publisher= Art Canada Institute | work=Technique and Style | access-date=25 November 2015 | author= Skelly, Julia }}</ref> These include [[nudity|nude]] subjects which was sometimes controversial in the 1930s.<ref>{{cite book|title=The women of Beaver Hall Canadian modernist painters|date=2005|publisher=Dundurn Press|isbn=1282810855|location=Toronto [Ont.]|page=17|last1=Walters|first1=Evelyn}}</ref> Art historian [[Charmaine Nelson]] has critically examined Heward’s depictions of black women she painted.<ref name=":0" />


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Though Heward also painted landscapes and still lifes, she was primarily a painter of human subjects. As Julia Skelly points out in ''Prudence Heward: Life & Work'', Heward preferred the term "figures" to portraits, and most of her figurative paintings are of women who often return the viewer's gaze, and who are "realistically rendered rather than unrealistically idealized".<ref name=":1">{{cite web | url= http://www.aci-iac.ca/prudence-heward/technique-and-style | title=Prudence Heward: Life & Work | publisher= Art Canada Institute | work=Technique and Style | access-date=25 November 2015 | author= Skelly, Julia }}</ref> These include [[nudity|nude]] subjects which was sometimes controversial in the 1930s.<ref>{{cite book|title=The women of Beaver Hall Canadian modernist painters|date=2005|publisher=Dundurn Press|isbn=1282810855|location=Toronto [Ont.]|page=17|last1=Walters|first1=Evelyn}}</ref> Art historian [[Charmaine Nelson]] has critically examined Heward’s depictions of black women she painted.<ref name=":0" />
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Her work was influenced by schools of European [[modernism]] and her application of these principles and styles was more than merely formal. They provided her "with a dynamic visual vocabulary for depicting modern Canadian women in both rural and urban contexts."<ref name=":1" />


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Her work was influenced by schools of European [[modernism]] and her application of these principles and styles was more than merely formal. They provided her "with a dynamic visual vocabulary for depicting modern Canadian women in both rural and urban contexts".<ref name=":1" />
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Today, works by Prudence Heward can be found in several Canadian galleries including the [[Winnipeg Art Gallery]], the [[Montréal Museum of Fine Arts]], the [[Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://collections.mnbaq.org/fr/artiste/600006963|title=Prudence Heward |website=www.collections.mnbaq.org|access-date=18 January 2020}}</ref> the [[Robert McLaughlin Gallery]] in Oshawa<ref>{{cite web |last1=Heward |first1=Prudence |title=Collection |url=https://rmg.minisisinc.com/m3online/scripts/mwimain.dll/72/1/0?SEARCH&SHOWSINGLE=Y&ERRMSG=[M3ONLINE]error.html |website=rmg.minisisinc.com |publisher=Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa |access-date=2021-03-05}}</ref> and at the [[National Gallery of Canada]].


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Works by Prudence Heward can be found in the collections of several Canadian galleries including the [[Winnipeg Art Gallery]], the [[Montréal Museum of Fine Arts]], the [[Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://collections.mnbaq.org/fr/artiste/600006963|title=Prudence Heward |website=www.collections.mnbaq.org|access-date=18 January 2020}}</ref> the [[Robert McLaughlin Gallery]] in Oshawa<ref>{{cite web |last1=Heward |first1=Prudence |title=Collection |url=https://rmg.minisisinc.com/m3online/scripts/mwimain.dll/72/1/0?SEARCH&SHOWSINGLE=Y&ERRMSG=[M3ONLINE]error.html |website=rmg.minisisinc.com |publisher=Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa |access-date=2021-03-05}}</ref> and the [[National Gallery of Canada]].
In 1996, her cousin, politician [[Heward Grafftey]], wrote "Chapter Four: Prudence Heward" for the book ''Portraits of a Life''.

==After her death==
In the year after her death in 1947 a memorial touring exhibition with 102 works was shown at the [[National Gallery of Canada]].<ref name=":0" /> In 1996, her cousin, politician [[Heward Grafftey]], wrote "Chapter Four: Prudence Heward" for the book ''Portraits of a Life''. ''By Woman's Hand'' (1994), a National Film Board documentary film by [[Pepita Ferrari]], examines her life and that of two fellow painters, [[Anne Savage (artist)|Anne Savage]] and [[Sarah Robertson (painter)|Sarah Robertson]].


On July 2, 2010, [[Canada Post stamp releases (2010-2014)|Canada Post]] released a commemorative stamp and a souvenir sheet in honour of Heward as part of its Art Canada collection. The two paintings featured were ''At the Theatre'' (1928) and ''Rollande'' (1929).<ref>Canada Post, ''Details/en détail'', vol. 19, no. 3 (July to September 2010), p. 6.</ref>
On July 2, 2010, [[Canada Post stamp releases (2010-2014)|Canada Post]] released a commemorative stamp and a souvenir sheet in honour of Heward as part of its Art Canada collection. The two paintings featured were ''At the Theatre'' (1928) and ''Rollande'' (1929).<ref>Canada Post, ''Details/en détail'', vol. 19, no. 3 (July to September 2010), p. 6.</ref>
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In 2021, the [[McMichael Canadian Art Collection]] organized ''Uninvited: Canadian Women Artists in the Modern Moment'' and included eight of her paintings.


==References==
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== Further reading ==
== Further reading ==
*{{cite book |last1=Ferrari |first1=Pepita |title="Prudence Heward: Painting at Home". Framing Our Past: Canadian Women's History in the Twentieth Century (eds.) Sharon Anne Cook, Lorna R. McLean, Kate O'Rourke |date=2001 |publisher=McGill Queen's U press |location=Montreal & Kingston |pages=129ff|isbn=9780773521728 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HVoRIKw5pCUC |access-date=23 February 2022}}
Julia Skelly. ''[https://www.aci-iac.ca/art-books/prudence-heward Prudence Heward: Life & Work]''. Toronto: Art Canada Institute, 2015. {{ISBN|9781487100698}}
*Julia Skelly. ''[https://www.aci-iac.ca/art-books/prudence-heward Prudence Heward: Life & Work]''. Toronto: Art Canada Institute, 2015. {{ISBN|9781487100698}}
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==External links==
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*[http://cwahi.concordia.ca/sources/artists/nameSearch.php?artist=prudence+heward Canadian Women Artists History Initiative]. Artist biographic database entry for Prudence Heward.
*[http://cwahi.concordia.ca/sources/artists/nameSearch.php?artist=prudence+heward Canadian Women Artists History Initiative]. Artist biographic database entry for Prudence Heward.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20180220212317/https://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/femmes/030001-1162-e.html Library and Archives Canada]. Themes: Prudence Heward.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20180220212317/https://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/femmes/030001-1162-e.html Library and Archives Canada]. Themes: Prudence Heward.
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*[http://www.gallery.ca/cybermuse/enthusiast/thirties/gallery_of_e.jsp?iartistid=2427 National Gallery of Canada]. Gallery of paintings by Prudence Heward
*[http://www.gallery.ca/cybermuse/enthusiast/thirties/gallery_of_e.jsp?iartistid=2427 National Gallery of Canada]. Gallery of paintings by Prudence Heward


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Prudence Heward
Prudence Heward
Born
Efa Prudence Heward

2 July 1896
Montreal, Quebec
Died19 March 1947 (aged 50)
EducationArt Association of Montreal
Known forpainter
MovementExpressionism; abstract art; Beaver Hall Hill Group.

Prudence Heward (July 2, 1896 – March 19, 1947)[1] was a Canadian figure painter, known for using acidic colour, a sculptural treatment, and giving an intense brooding quality to her subjects.[2] She was a charter member of the Canadian Group of Painters, the Contemporary Arts Society and the Federation of Canadian Artists.[3] Although she did not show her work with the Beaver Hall Group, she was allied with many of its artists in her aesthetic aims and through friendships.

Biography

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Born Efa Prudence Heward in Montreal, Heward was the sixth of eight children and was educated at private schools. She showed an interest in art at a young age, possibly encouraged by her artistically-inclined mother and sister Dorothy, and started drawing lessons at age twelve at the Art Association of Montreal school with William Brymner and Maurice Cullen.[4][5]

During World War I, Heward lived in England where her brothers served in the Canadian Army while she served as a volunteer with the Red Cross. Returning to Canada at war's end, she continued her painting, studying at the Art Association of Montreal. As a student in the advanced class, in 1924, she won the Women's Art Society Prize for painting and her work was given its first public showing at the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in Toronto, Ontario. However, it was still an era when women artists were given little credibility and it wasn't until 1932 that Heward's first solo exhibition came at the W. Scott & Sons Gallery in Montreal.

Wanting to refine her skills, and drawn to the great gathering of creative genius in the Montparnasse Quarter of Paris, France, between 1925 and 1926 Prudence Heward lived and painted in Paris. While studying at the Académie Colarossi, she frequented Le Dome Café in Montparnasse, the favorite haunt of North American writers and artists and the place where Canadian writer Morley Callaghan came with his friends Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. In 1929, in Paris, Heward met Ontario painter Isabel McLaughlin with whom she became friends[1] and upon her return to Canada, would join with her and other artists on nature painting trips. In the same year 1929 her career got a major boost when her painting, Girl on a Hill, won the top prize in the Governor General Willingdon competition organized by the National Gallery of Canada.[6]

She was invited to exhibit with the Group of Seven and through it became friends with A. Y. Jackson with whom she would go on sketching excursions along the Saint Lawrence River. She did a number of landscapes, with a particular attachment for Quebec's Eastern Townships.

She joined the executive committee of "The Atelier: A School of Drawing Painting Sculpture" in 1931.[7] During the Second World War she designed war posters.[7] In 1933, Prudence Heward was a charter member of the Canadian Group of Painters,[8] but her struggle with asthma and other health problems eventually slowed her down.[9] A 1939 automobile accident curtailed her abilities further but she still produced some outstanding portraits until 1945 when her health had deteriorated to the point where she had to give up painting. She died two years later, while seeking medical treatment in Los Angeles, California.[1]

Work

[edit]
The Immigrants, Prudence Heward, 1929, Private Collection, Toronto
The Immigrants, Prudence Heward, 1929, Private Collection, Toronto

Though Heward also painted landscapes and still lifes, she was primarily a painter of human subjects. As Julia Skelly points out in Prudence Heward: Life & Work, Heward preferred the term "figures" to portraits, and most of her figurative paintings are of women who often return the viewer's gaze, and who are "realistically rendered rather than unrealistically idealized".[10] These include nude subjects which was sometimes controversial in the 1930s.[11] Art historian Charmaine Nelson has critically examined Heward’s depictions of black women she painted.[7]

Her work was influenced by schools of European modernism and her application of these principles and styles was more than merely formal. They provided her "with a dynamic visual vocabulary for depicting modern Canadian women in both rural and urban contexts".[10]

Works by Prudence Heward can be found in the collections of several Canadian galleries including the Winnipeg Art Gallery, the Montréal Museum of Fine Arts, the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec,[12] the Robert McLaughlin Gallery in Oshawa[13] and the National Gallery of Canada.

After her death

[edit]

In the year after her death in 1947 a memorial touring exhibition with 102 works was shown at the National Gallery of Canada.[7] In 1996, her cousin, politician Heward Grafftey, wrote "Chapter Four: Prudence Heward" for the book Portraits of a Life. By Woman's Hand (1994), a National Film Board documentary film by Pepita Ferrari, examines her life and that of two fellow painters, Anne Savage and Sarah Robertson.

On July 2, 2010, Canada Post released a commemorative stamp and a souvenir sheet in honour of Heward as part of its Art Canada collection. The two paintings featured were At the Theatre (1928) and Rollande (1929).[14]

In 2021, the McMichael Canadian Art Collection organized Uninvited: Canadian Women Artists in the Modern Moment and included eight of her paintings.

References

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  1. ^ a b c Ferrari, Prudence. "Prudence Heward: Painting at Home." (2001). In Framing Our Past: Canadian Women's History in the Twentieth Century, S.A. Cook, L.R. McLean, and K. O'Rourke, eds. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press. p. 129-133.
  2. ^ The Canadian Encyclopedia
  3. ^ "Canadian Women Artists History Initiative : Artist Database : Artists : HEWARD, Prudence". cwahi.concordia.ca.
  4. ^ "National Gallery of Canada".
  5. ^ "Library and Archives Canada". Archived from the original on 2018-02-20. Retrieved 2014-02-01.
  6. ^ Walters, Evelyn (2005). The women of Beaver Hall : Canadian modernist painters. Toronto: Dundurn Press. pp. 124. ISBN 9781282810853.
  7. ^ a b c d Skelly, Julia (2015). Prudence Heward: Life & Work. Art Canada Institute. ISBN 9781487100698. Retrieved 11 March 2017.
  8. ^ Walters, Evelyn (2005). The women of Beaver Hall Canadian modernist painters. Toronto [Ont.]: Dundurn Press. p. 18. ISBN 1282810855.
  9. ^ Powell, Grace (2008). Challenging the status quo: Prudence Heward's portrayals of Canadian women from the 1920s to the 1940s (masters). Montreal: Concordia University. p. 105.
  10. ^ a b Skelly, Julia. "Prudence Heward: Life & Work". Technique and Style. Art Canada Institute. Retrieved 25 November 2015.
  11. ^ Walters, Evelyn (2005). The women of Beaver Hall Canadian modernist painters. Toronto [Ont.]: Dundurn Press. p. 17. ISBN 1282810855.
  12. ^ "Prudence Heward". www.collections.mnbaq.org. Retrieved 18 January 2020.
  13. ^ Heward, Prudence. "Collection". rmg.minisisinc.com. Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa. Retrieved 2021-03-05.
  14. ^ Canada Post, Details/en détail, vol. 19, no. 3 (July to September 2010), p. 6.

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