Lilias Torrance Newton (1896-1980) was a Canadian painter.[1][2][3][4]
Lilias Torrance Newton was born in Lachine, Quebec, a suburb of Montréal in Canada in 1896.[1][2][4] She attended the Art Association of Montreal, under the tutelage of William Brymner.[1][3] She was then tutored by Alfred Wolmark in London and Alexandre Jacovleff in Paris.[1][2][4] During the First World War, she worked for the Red Cross in England.[3] She was married in 1921 and had one child.[1] She was divorced in 1933.[3]
She was elected an Associate of the Royal Canadian Academy in 1923 and Academician in 1939 and 1973.[1][3][4] She was also a founding member of the Beaver Hall Group and the Canadian Group of Painters.[1][2][4] She also taught at her alma mater, the Art Association of montreal, and received an honorary LL.D. from the University of Toronto.[1]
She died in Cowansville, Quebec in 1980.[2]
Her work is exhibited at the National Gallery of Canada, the Edmonton Museum, the Calgary Museum, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Hart House, the Montreal Museum of Fine Art, the Musée du Quebec, the War Museum in Ottawa, etc.[4]