Alicia Killaly (also called Alice Killaly[note 1]; 1836–1908) was a Canadian watercolour painter. She was born in London, Upper Canada in 1836. She lived in Quebec City, Montreal and Toronto during the 1840s and 1850s. Killaly married Christopher Hatton Turnor, a former British soldier, in 1871 and moved to England.[2] Killaly died in 1908 in Grantham, Lincolnshire.[2]
Alicia Killaly | |
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| Born | 1836 London, Ontario |
| Died | 1908 (aged 71–72) Grantham, United Kingdom |
| Known for | Painter |
| Spouse | C. H. Turner |
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] [7] She is not known to have produced any artworks after her marriage.
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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 edit
- ^ 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 edit
- ^ 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